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RIAA bangs its ‘piracy is bad’ drum
THE MUSIC MAFIAA at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is amping up its anti-'piracy' howls in the run-up to Christmas and has been at the US Whitehouse banging its drum.
We don't suspect that the President was considering just giving out CD mix tapes as presents this year and needed an intervention, but the RIAA apparently wanted to shout its message about the dangers of counterfeit and copyright infringing products as close to the government's ear as possible.
If you live in the US then, you should prepare yourself for a barrage of radio, print and television advertising.
"The music community is grateful for the heightened attention devoted to the harm caused by the theft of intellectual property. As a community still plagued by the rampant theft of our work, we have seen firsthand the devastating effects this theft can have on the lives of hard-working, passionate musicians, songwriters, producers and countless others," said RIAA chairman and CEO Cary Sherman.
"We're especially grateful for the focus on the plight of musicians as they struggle to be paid for their work. We commend the Administration's continued commitment to preserving music's value, supporting creativity, and its steadfast recognition that meaningful intellectual property enforcement is key to fostering innovation and creating jobs."
Adverts are not the only tool at the RIAA's disposal and it is also petitioning the government to support its blacklist of file and media sharing web sites, including Megaupload. According to reports Megaupload was down for most of yesterday, and according to Torrent freak this is because its domain was seized as part of US anti-'piracy' efforts.
This has earned the RIAA the attention of the hacktivist group Anonymous. "Tango Down: http://RIAA.com [Temp] for collaborating with the US govt to take down http://megaupload.com and other 300+ websites," says a tweet from the Anon_Central account as it continues to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). "#Anonymous is protesting & making their voice heard to #SOPA. What are you up to? Join the #protest."
We've asked the RIAA to confirm what happened but have not had a response. µ
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It's only going to get worse for pirates. Governments worldwide are increasing the punishment from piracy. Ask The Pirate Bay Boys how well denial works as a defense in a court of law.
It's is a civil matter in most of the civilized world only in the Totalitarian United Corporate States is it a jailable crime.You have sold your country and your government to corporations Ben Franklin must be rolling in his grave!!
People, crime is to be human, so don't have friends, do not share experience, stuff with them, with your neighbors, books, music and movies, tools, accessories, just stay alone in the dark at your home, work 24-hours until you die, and pay for everything with your salary ...
That is what RIAA wants, that are what all big banks, companies want, make people slaves, that why occupy Wall Streets began ...
Masses don't support RIAA and their mafia/Gestapo approach either.
The "masses" don't support piracy nor hacking by Antisec. The "masses" support prosecution of these people.
lmao, RIAA taking down websites like Megavideo is only going to piss off the masses and allow groups like Anonymous to grow exponentially.
I guess RIAA and its cronies were never taught by their parents that lying is bad.
No where in the torrent freak article does it say the US has seized the website!!!! It's in fact some kind of a problem with the DNS server.In fact, they give you points to say there opinion is it has nothing to do with the US seizures.
"For the past 24 hours the hugely popular MegaUpload file-hosting service has been rendered inaccessible across many countries around the world. With the United States government ‘Cyber Monday’ domain seizures fresh in everyone’s mind, fingerpointing has been directed at the U.S. authorities. The problems, however, seem to be rooted with the site’s domain registrar since they appear to have ‘seized’ MegaUpload’s DNS records following a dispute."
"Update 30th Nov: MegaUpload inform us that there was indeed a nameserver issue affecting the site but there is nothing to worry about and everything is back to normal.
In rare cases it might take a while for every DNS server around the world to be updated (rarely up to 48 hours) but normal service should have already been resumed."
source : torrent freak article you mis quoted
Then we'll talk.
You can argue if crime is good or bad from a prison cell.