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RIAA & MPAA Seek Authority To Pretext
msblack writes "The RIAA and MPAA are lobbying California legislators for an exemption to proposed legislation that would outlaw pretexting. Pretexting is the practice of pretending to be someone else in order to obtain personal information on a person, such as telephone or banking records. According to an article in the LA Times, the RIAA and MPAA sometimes need to lie in their pursuit of bootleggers. They would like the legislation to exempt anyone who owns a copyright, patent, trademark, or trade secret from restrictions against pretexting. An interesting line from the article is, '[RIAA's Brad] Buckles said the recording industry had never, nor would it ever, assume someone's identity to access that person's phone or bank records.' Fortunately, Senator Corbert, the bill's author, is unlikely to accept these hostile changes."
Since copyright is attached at the moment of creation, anyone who has ever written a letter, blog post, or even a comment on slashdot owns a copyright.
In other words, "everyone should be exempt from this legislation, except possibly pets."
So now the RIAA and the MPAA want to actually pose as me and download music and movies, so that they can sue me?
The RIAA and MPAA have been lobbying for a bill that would allow them to shoot people, whom they suspect of being so-called pirates, on sight.
They promise they would never shoot innocent people, and in fact, added that being shot by a RIMPAA anti-piracy squad is actually proof that the target was a pirate.
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The moment they add on a rider making it legal to hunt and stuff lawyers.
I don't read AC A human right
Give me your name and address and I'll send you a free information booklet on this fascinating legal subject.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Proposed amendment
Allows them to trick others
Merely pretexting
© 2007 El Torico
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is usually crucified.
RIAA and MPAA lobby to be exempt from jail and fines for anything they do. Spokesman quoted saying, "Hey, diplomats have this already, so it's hardly unprecedented."
And...
Applications for copyrights, patents, trademarks, and claimed Trade Secrets rise to an all-time high, especially in California. U.S. government spokesman reports, "If this continues, soon every American and illegal immigrant will have laid claim to some piece of intellectual property. I wonder why they'd all want to do this now?"
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Pretexting is what happens when pre-pubescent pre-teens use mobile phones.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Can't argue with the RIAA calling themselves a bunch of criminals ... its truth in advertising.
Our chief weapon is suprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... and pretexting?
I'll come in again.
How stupid could you be, an addendum to a law that basically allows everybody to ignore it, oh my, only RIAA lawyers could have manage that one.
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