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RIAA Sets Their Sights on Russia

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the biting-off-more-than-you-can-chew dept.

Conor Turton writes to tell us that the RIAA has set their sights on Russia for their newest push into anti-piracy. A recent bill was sponsored in the Senate to deny Russia's entrance into the WTO (among other things) if they did not take major action against piracy. From the press release: "The effective protection of American intellectual property has been sorely lacking in Russia. This resolution is significant because it expresses the will of the U.S. Congress that Russia must take effective action against those who would steal America's knowledge-intensive intellectual property-based goods and services. We must not enter into political arrangements with countries ill-prepared to adequately protect our greatest economic assets."

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  1. Someone's gotta... by mister_llah · · Score: 2, Funny

    In soviet Russia, files share YOU!

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    1. Re:Someone's gotta... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, Slashdot posts on fucking idiots.

    2. Re:Someone's gotta... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, jokes can't take you anymore!

    3. Re:Someone's gotta... by ENIGMAwastaken · · Score: 2, Funny

      In Slashdot, Soviet Russia makes jokes about you!

  2. Well Napoleon, Hitler and now the RIAA by Crashmarik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amazing how much they have in common. Hopefully the RIAA has as much success as the first two.

    1. Re:Well Napoleon, Hitler and now the RIAA by Justin205 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hope they have less success than Hitler and Napoleon, personally, or we could be in for a dark few years... :-/

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    2. Re:Well Napoleon, Hitler and now the RIAA by nitehawk214 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think he was referring to the dark years of the RIAA conquering much of continental Europe.

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    3. Re:Well Napoleon, Hitler and now the RIAA by HardCase · · Score: 4, Funny

      Blammo, Godwinned right off the bat!

    4. Re:Well Napoleon, Hitler and now the RIAA by PatrickThomson · · Score: 5, Funny
      So the RIAA did $12 billion in sales last year


      You're forgetting, that's before the adjustment for piracy. $120,000 per track, times lots of numbers, especially downloads from russia, means that the RIAA's turnover if russia complied would be $5 gazerbaijuhullion per year.

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  3. What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    No Soviet Russia jokes yet?!?!

    1. Re:What? by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'll think of something as soon as I stop laughing at the notion of "American intellectual property".

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    2. Re:What? by Omnieiunium · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sorry, but "In Soviet Russia..." jokes are a copyrighted material by the RIAA.

  4. Knowledge Intensive eh? by Kawahee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Knowledge Intensive Intellectual Property? Please.

    Here's some knowledge intensive U2 lyrics for you:

    WoooAoo! WoooAoo! WoooAoo! WoooAoo!
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah,
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
    I can feeeeEEEEEEeeeeeel.

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    1. Re:Knowledge Intensive eh? by Bluetick · · Score: 2, Funny

      Considering this whole thread is about intellectual property being stolen, I think it's pretty appropriate.

  5. of course by know1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    in communist russia...
    slashdot cliches you

  6. Good Luck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is one legal copy of Windows in Russia. The rest are copies.

  7. yeah, right... by qzulla · · Score: 2, Funny
    This resolution is significant because it expresses the will of the U.S. Congress that Russia must take effective action against those who would steal America's knowledge-intensive intellectual property-based goods and services. We must not enter into political arrangements with countries ill-prepared to adequately protect our greatest economic assets.

    "knowledge-intensive intellectual property-based goods"

    Hey! Wait! I know those three chords - D-A-G.

    "our greatest economic assets."

    Hey! Wait! I know those... never mind

    In Soviet Russia the music listens to YOU!

    qz

  8. Re:Hahahahaha by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure the RIAA could hire some of the Soviet-era thugs who've been desperate for work. Although, if the thugs want to feel good about themselves in the morning, I hear there's a large organized crime industry in Russia as well.

  9. Had to say it... by hackstraw · · Score: 3, Funny


    In Soviet Russia, the ecording Industry Association of America owns you!

  10. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    AllOfMp3.com is legal.

    gotcha ;-)

  11. That's funny by DanThe1Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's funny because I proxy all my peer-to-peer traffic through a server in Russia. I wonder if my mass downloading has anything to do with this?

  12. Such hubris by petrus4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    As I recall, Hitler's fatal mistake was to attempt to conquer Russia, as well.

    I wonder if this parallel is symbolic of anything? ;)

    (To the lemmings who will doubtless now pour out of the woodwork screaming about Godwin's Law, please go back to sleep. That law refers to gratuitous overuse of references to Hitler or the Nazis...it doesn't say they should not be mentioned at all. Although even if it did, personally I'd hardly care...so don't bother.)

    1. Re:Such hubris by Ullric · · Score: 2, Funny

      well,if it is,hopefully within 1 or 2 years the RIAA president will shoot himself in an undergroud bunker. :P

  13. There's a more obvious one... by hackwrench · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Russia sets their sights on the RIAA!

  14. Re:Has everything to do with it!!! by rbrugman · · Score: 2, Funny

    A cunt maybe, but at least not an anonymous coward.