Leaked RIAA Training Video 335
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."
ROFFLCOPTER (Score:5, Informative)
The link of the TORRENT [thepiratebay.org]
Re:ROFFLCOPTER (Score:0, Informative)
Re:gateway crime misinformation (Score:5, Informative)
Because what the RIAA calls "pirating" is what most people did in the record days and tape days. I didn't see the recording industry suddenly get bankrupt. What about VCRs that recorded TV did that suddenly make TV stations go bankrupt? Or the TiVo how it skips ads, because I know that it made TV shows stop airing because people "pirated" them and skipped the commercials. The fact is, "pirating" is doing the same job today as radio did 10-20 years ago, promotes the artist. People won't buy something without hearing or seeing it for free, same reason a bookstore will let you read an entire book if you really want to without paying for it. In the end though, even though it hurts the *AA's cashflow for a bit, it will increase it in the long run by gaining new music fans.
Re:More on the Lawyer war (Score:3, Informative)
Re:we are like SO legion (Score:5, Informative)
I'm no moron, my mate, but I'll merrily meet your invitation. Let my moniker be my mask.
*clears throat*
"The anti-MAFIAA Manifesto" (v3.06)
Market Momentum. A marginal improvement in a massive move of milliards of monetary units. Mobs maintaining their millionaire manors with a martial ministry, marauding and muzzling the melomaniacs who made the mistake of mounting multi-user music-sharing programs onto their microprocessors, mostly for an ear-mashing, mundane and monotonous munch of music, with a miserable "remastered" dynamic range.
The Machiavellian Music Industry, the Movie Masterminds and their malevolent minions, muscled by the majority of the media, masquerade their managers as martyrs to maintain a megalithic marketing model, misleading the masses into malls like mules, macerating -no, milking- their income and molding them: With mesmerizing melodies, moronic mottos, mountains of merchandise and meticulously mannered nominations, those monsters mutilate the masses' minds, melding them into not more than mere mammals, with a microscopic mental magnitude, matching the mud and the moss.
Myth? Misstatement? Madness? MATERIALISM!
Meanwhile, in their magnificent mansions, the mink-mantled magnates morbidly mock the minorities' misfortune, while moistening their mouths in martinis under the moonlight, and masticating their meat and marshmallows like no tomorrow.
Those mischievous moguls magnify their monumental monopolies by multiplying their machinery: Digital Rights Management, DMCA, "Trusted" Computing (Mr. Stallman was not mistaken). Maltreating musicians, misusing copyright to the max, mirroring the Matrix by mining the government to monitor communications, marching like the militia to school meetings in the mornings with menacing memos, mirthfully mismatching mortified mothers for maleficent mobsters, mandating most into misspending more and more (or be imprisoned). Their main motivation is no mystery: Money.
Money! A metastatic misery, a muddling myopia, a momentary make-believe, a magnetizing mirage! A manipulating mephisto, which metamorphoses the meek into mercenaries and murderers, making them moan like Midas in a maniacal manner: "mine, mine, mine!!" Is modesty no more?
MONEY! MAY OUR MAKER MALEDICT THEE!
(Meditate my musing for a moment)
This melee, to maximize their market share. Most of mankind's malignancy is merged into a man-made monster of mastodonic measures. A mammoth called MAFIAA. Months pass, and the multitudes mourn the ever-minimizing mobility of their mediocre minds, amidst marred music, meaningless media transmissions, and miniaturizing freedom. This multinational massacre must be terminated, but most men make meager or no moves, at most mimetizing their communications with muTorrent, masked by the mist of encryption. Is this illegal? Maybe. Morally wrong? Maybe, maybe not (memorize this term: Civil Disobedience).
IT IS MANDATORY THAT WE DO MUCH MORE, OR THIS MACABRE MELTDOWN WILL MOVE ON!!
Militate and manifest yourselves in the metropolis! This is a major command! Miraculous modifications start as a minimal idea in a man or a woman's mind. Maintain your might! Manly move forward, and donate money to your magnanimous comrades, the EFF and FSF, for their mission is not minor! But if you malinger...
Memorize my message, merciless mice! You might enjoy your freedoms for a minuscule moment - you shall miss them in melancholy for millennia, after they mutate into a marooned, mummified memory in a mausoleum named morgue. Misunderstand me not: this moderate memento, merriment to many, may be a premonitory ultimatum.
A MAYDAY!
Merry to meet you, I'm merely a man behind a mask with a mystifying moniker. I am M.
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K, how about medication (Score:2, Informative)
What they're saying is that law enforcement can use piracy to access suspected terrorists, murderers and drug dealers property by means of warrants that they wouldn't otherwise be able to obtain.
They're suggesting that Bob, a drug dealer, by chance also pirates Britney Spears MP3's. So the cops use that as reason for a warrant. While searching Bobs apartment for Britney Spears related material, they also
Re:Sweden's neutral! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:gateway crime misinformation (Score:3, Informative)
They did! Jack Valenti told us they would, and Jack wouldn't lie, would he???
Re:While it may be true (Score:5, Informative)
1-When I rip songs from a legally purchased CD to OGG files on my computer, that is NOT piracy, anymore than making a compilation CD of my favorite songs from my collection of legally purchased CD is.
2- Recording from radio and TV stations that are broadcasting over the air has always been allowed...it is NOT piracy.
3-P2P downloads of music and movies have been shown to increase sales of music and movies...People don't like to buy something that they haven't heard/seen. Downloading copyrighted movies and music via P2P IS piracy, but it is not hurting the movie or music industry as much as they are hurting themselves by trying to hang on to their outdated business model, and treating their customers like they are ALL criminals.
4-This is the Big One...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.
Of course, I am not saying anything that the folks on
Re:Sweden's neutral! (Score:5, Informative)
Bwahahaha... They do not just have their own army, they are also one of the biggest manufacturers of weapons in the world. Ever heard of Bofors? Swedes make their own small arms, artillery, tanks, even fighter aircraft.
All of that considerably cheaper than USA or UK and a lot of that much better quality than the USA or UK. They buy some avionics from BAE, but otherwise their weapons industry is mostly native. In fact, IIRC, USA is importing some small arms from Sweden for their special forces. So does UK.
While the Viggens and Griphens do not look so fancy they can actually stand their own against most NATO or Russian aircraft. Same for other Swedish kit.
This is one "neutral" country I will definitely not f*** with. It is neutrality armed to the teeth.
Re:Sweden's neutral! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It actually does solve a lot... (Score:5, Informative)
"I think number one it has to be stressed that this crime, this type of crime effects quality of life in the DA's, uh, jurisdiction in the cities in which they work and live, but the other thing is that it's a link to a lot of other crimes. And I tell the prosecutors and I tell the police officers that I work with all the time use this type of a crime as a tool this might lead you to a drug investigation...It also has links to terrorism organizations for you federal prosecutors out there..."
You can find this about 2 minutes into the video.
Phone them (Score:2, Informative)
Northeast Region
John Curry
212-533-5869
Central Region
Deborah Robinson
610-521-8566
Western Region
Marcus Cohen
714-236-0830
Southern Region
Matthew Kilgo
678-402-2000
Re:Sweden's neutral! (Score:3, Informative)
IAAACG (I am an arm chair general), but, AFAIK, Sweden has a very large and well trained reserve comprising of pretty much every able-bodied man in the country. They also have very good defences and professional know-how. The USSR would certainly have defeated them, esp. in a protracted war, but it would have been tough going. They probably would have used paratroopers to capture the main airport in Stockholm, and used significant naval capability.
Re:Sweden's neutral! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:That solves everything! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Sweden's neutral! (Score:4, Informative)
Should a country invade, an aggressive superpower in particular, you'd have every man, woman, and child capable of carrying a gun as rebellion - and Swedes are the organized, cold and rational kind with a chilly, calculating stare. Iraq would look like Kansas in comparison.
Re:Sweden's neutral! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Sweden's neutral! (Score:3, Informative)
Given the context the OP is probably a European and its just a translation error between Hard Water (mineral content) and Heavy Water (Deuterium content). It's a common mistake for Nordic and Germanic translations.