Comparing the RIAA To "The Sopranos"

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to commentator Therese Polletti at Dow Jones MarketWatch, 'the RIAA's tactics are nearly as bad as the actions of mobsters, real or fictional. The analogy comes up easily and frequently in any discussion of the RIAA's maneuvers.' Among other things she cites the extortionate nature of their 'settlement negotiations' pointed out by Prof. Bob Talbot of the University of San Francisco School of Law IP Law Clinic. His student attorneys are helping private practitioners fight the RIAA, and the the illegality of the RIAA's use of unlicensed investigators. She goes on to cite the fact that the RIAA thinks nothing of jeopardizing a student's college education in order to make their point, as support for the MAFIAA/Mafia analogy."

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i'm antifundamentalist

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i have nothing against islam

christian fundamentalists are just as wrong as muslim fundamentalists

but it doesn't take a genius to see that currently the muslim world has a bigger problem with fundamentalist assholes destroying muslim societies than the christian world does

when the christian world was busy clubbing each other in the dark ages, the muslim world was making advances in algebra, alchemy, alcohol, algorithms... notice a trend in those words?

the christian world was once as dogmatic and fascist religiously as the muslim world is now. then the christian world went throught the enlightment, in which religious fundamentalism was questioned, and rejected. and ever since then the christian world has gained in terms of scientific advancement and prosperity as compared to the muslim world, while the muslim world stagnated into poverty and backwardness as religious fundamentalism took root

so i have nothing against islam. i simply understand history and see a cycle between religious dogmatism and enlightment. and i recognize correctly that currently the christian world is more enlightened than the muslim world and the muslim world is full of more religious fascism than the christian world. currently. once, that situation was reversed. and it could reverse again

so why does recognizing this obvious historical cycle fact make me anti-muslim? i'm not anti-muslim at all for saying any of these obvious things. i'm simply anti-fundamentalist, and i simply understand the cycles of fundamentalist peak and wane are separate in the muslim and christian worlds. currently, the muslim world suffers a horrible fundamentalist growth much larger than the christian world currently does

understand?