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Leaked RIAA Training Video
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has a clip of that RIAA training video produced with the NDAA for US prosecutors that was leaked to torrent sites a few days ago. It argues they should pursue piracy cases because it leads to bigger and badder wares, like handguns, drugs, terrorist orgs, and hardcore repeat offender criminals. It's kind of sad how far they're stretching to bring law enforcement into the matter."
Because, you know, terrorists always watch pirated movies and download pop albums, and they're constantly Torrenting weapons of mass destruction (though it takes awhile with their throughput).
RIAA, Homeland Security... who knew they were one and the same?
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
A CD today, tomorrow the world! arrrrrrrrrrr....
How will they pursue piracy cases without a Navy?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Nah, they only look pasty like that. I can't speak on statistics of non-Caucasians securing student loans to law schools, though.
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
It was the heady days of the dot com era, and I was but a wee lad hacking away in my bedroom. One fateful day I stumbled upon a website called Napster, and soon began downloading hordes of ill-gotten music. Before long, my insatiable craving for tunes led me to buy more hard drives, then a RAID enclosure, then an enterprise-level SAN... I should have seen the warning signs.
I gradually withdrew from my friends and family, unable to control my urge for more tunes. I knew it was wrong, but it felt so... right. I began using other filesharing software, and soon experienced strange hallucinations involving limes and wires. I told a friend about it, and he gave me some pills to help me sleep better at night. The troubling dreams and hallucinations faded, but now I couldn't stop taking the pills. Chain smoking, heavy drinking, and chronic pacing soon developed. I was having trouble concentrating on anything other than file swapping, and began using crack cocaine to improve my focus. My teeth began to loosen in their sockets, and I was fired from work after failing a drug test.
Now I live on the streets, feeding my addiction through unsecured wireless hotspots that I access through a Pentium 90 connected to an exercise bike generator. My crack cocaine consumption has skyrocketed due to my need to constantly pedal the bike lest my rig lose power. Heed my warning: sharing and downloading music will ruin your life! Contact your local RIAA liason to seek treatment immediately. It's not too late... friends don't let friends use filesharing software.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
If you have not seen the video you can search for it on piratebay.org
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."
Considering how I don't listen to any (well, hardly any - "Still Alive" is catchy) music newer than about 1987, how about you just burn me a "Best of Black Sabbath" album and I'll write you a check for $6.95?
I'll do you one better. You go here...
...and download it yourself. You burn it and send Sabbath a check, as I had nothing to do with it and have no claim to their cash. If the boys in the band like their arrangement with the label then they'll kick back some of the money. If not, then their beef is with the suits. Either way, I'm okay with it.
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3678098/Black_Sabbath-The_Best_Of_Black_Sabbath-2CD-(Remastered)-2007-EO
However, you should be warned that by downloading that torrent you're supporting communism, AIDS, baby rape, and late fees at video stores. I hope you're happy with yourself, you amoral hooligan.
"If they [RIAA} want to fight organized crime,.."
Family doesn't fight family - capish?
RIAA: "When we followed leads gathered in the process of prosecuting people for piracy we found other people we could prosecute for drug possession, terrorism, and murder!"
J: "Are you trying to say that the people you originally investigated were guilty of drug possession, terrorism, and murder, and that all people you intend to have prosecuted for piracy will also be guilty of drug possession, terrorism, and murder?"
RIAA: "Well, erm.. no..."
J: "So.. what are you saying?"
RIAA: "Well, piracy could benefit drug dealers, terrorists, and murderers, and so you should prosecute pirates with heavy penalties!"
J: "Have you filed charges against, say, The Pirate Bay, for sponsoring drug dealing, terrorism, and murder?"
RIAA: "Well... no..."
J: "Wouldn't you say that anybody providing a service to unknown clients, e.g. a website, may quite innocently service drug dealers, terrorists, and murderers in exactly the same way it would service law abiding citizens, making just as much differentiation between the two as your local laundromat?"
RIAA: "Ummm... we need a recess..."
and you're misrepresenting yourself for fun, you rock dude
if you are actually who you say you are, you rock dude
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Relax, the RIAA is just speaking from *personal* experience. Pursuing piracy cases has lead them to become hardcore repeat offender criminals. The video is a *warning* : if it can happen to them, it can happen to you - ooooooooo
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The first hit (single) is always free...
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
Bittorrent == WMD (Weapon of Mass Downloading)?
While I hate the RIAA bastards, too, I really found this comment hideously offensive.
Do you have any idea how valuable a truck full of blank media is? What a shameless waste.
You can't stop the music. Nobody can stop the music. Take the cold from snow. Tell the trees, don't grow. Tell the wind, don't blow, 'cause it's easier.
Going after piracy cases leads to terrorist organizations-- you know, organizations which terrorize people.
What they mean is that going after piracy helps bolster one of these organizations, known as the RIAA.....
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"And creating a nuisance", and they all came back and sat next to me on the Group W bench, talking about father raping and selling crack and operating torrent trackers and all kinds of groovy stuff..."
Is that the smell of a brand new Slashdot Meme, perhaps? Or just of Arlo throwing up in disgust?
*two brothers, Billy and Timmy come home, Billy is listening to his iPod*
Mom: Billy, did you legally obtain all the music on that iPod?
Billy: Yes, mom.
Mom: Mrs. Johnson told me her son lent you a CD... you know that's piracy!
Billy: But, mom!
Mom: No "buts"! You're grounded and no internet for you until we're sure the RIAA isn't tapping our computer!
Billy: But Timmy stabbed a kid at school today!
Timmy: The voices tell me to hurt people.
Mom: Did he violate international copyright law?
Billy: There were cops and an ambulence and everything!
Mom: You didn't answer my question.
Billy: No. He didn't.
Mom: That's right. Now you go to your room. Timmy, would you like some ice cream?
Timmy: I want to burn things.
This sig is false.
A Gateway drug? But my PC is a Dell.
For context, click Parent.
As soon as I get home... :)
Actually, Swedens official strategy for an invasion is to only hold out long enough to allow all our milita to run into the woods and get armed. After that: guerilla/terrorist warfare for all :)
;)
A tactic I belive USA in Iraq called unfair
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Contrary to their vixens though...
This is one "neutral" country I will definitely not f*** withYour obviously not familiar with those yet!
I can see it now: Sweede/geeks hiding behind server clusters, plotting raids on Rockstar caches, wearing down the morale of the enemy by constantly playing Hamster Dance.
"So who makes those knives then?"
If you're talking about Swiss Army Knives then I guess it would have to be the Swiss, who live in Switzerland, which is a good drive from Sweden.
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Recording from radio and TV stations that are broadcasting over the air has always been allowed...
It's always been tolerated. "Allowed" is perhaps too strong a word, since there's nothing in copyright law that explicitly affirms one's "right" to create for personal use a permanent copy of a protected work that has been freely distributed.
The RIAA, and MPAA need to go after the big pirates...you know...the ones who are making hundreds of thousands of illegal copies of copyrighted movies and music, and selling them all over the world.
No doubt that large-scale commercial bootlegging is costing them more money than than when I rip a disc to my file server, but one of the primary arguments of the *AA's legal strategy (one which they have yet to provide sufficient proof of, at least to me) is that allowing a work to be freely copied via a P2P network IS large-scale bootlegging. It may only take one upload to permit 10,000 unlawful downloads to happen (again, the proof of this hasn't beens hown).
Unless you want to scrub every quote less than 2000 years old, shut the fuck up. The quote is attributed to Rand because she fucking wrote it. An NO POINT EVER is quoting somebody indicative, suggestive, or even remotely asserting that the quoted person is the originator of the idea expressed, only the manner in which it is stated. Further, Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged in a period of over a decade (40s, 50s) so you might want to consider overlap (30s, 40s). Lastly and by your moronic logic, you just attributed the insight to Hitler you fucking fascist pig.
I think it can at least lead to the first one on your list.
"Sweden does have a military- current strength is 65,500 members." I understand they would like to expand, but ever since their forces began computerized recordkeeping they inexplicably can't get over this 65,500 level.
Well I'm making *two* Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movies in NYC.