RIAA, MPAA Blitz: Part II
p2pnet.net News:- It’s almost the season of goodwill and Hollywood’s MPAA and the Big Four Organized Music cartel’s RIAA will be again teaming up to launch Part II of their Christmas Blitz.
Called the World Library Copyright Wake Up Drive, the aim is to alert libraries to the danger they’re in each time they allow a borrower to remove an unlicensed CD or DVD.
“Criminal sharing of any kind must be stopped, and that includes stealing copyright content by taking CDs and DVDs out of a library,” says the RIAA’s Fritz Mainwoe.
“This isn’t about us,” states the MPAA’s Dolph Hilter. “It’s about our artists and support staff and their children. It’s about honesty and integrity and the American way and the things our forefathers fought for when they wrote the constitution because every time someone takes a DVD out of a library without paying us, an American industry worker is threatened with eviction or even starvation and if we don’t stop it, who will?”
Working together, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) will supervise local police around the world in raids on public libraries offering “illegal” CDs and DVDs.
Called Operation Santa, it’s slated to run from December 24 until January 1, 2007, and will be coordinated by the US Department of Justice, supported by investigators from the Department of Homeland Defence and Microsoft, as well as CIA, NSA, RSPCA, SPCA and News Corp staff.
“We’ve put this together for months to coincide with the Christmas season,” says Mainwoe.
RIAA and MPAA legal staff have drawn up World Library Copyright licenses which were hand-delivered in every country which has even one library, say the two entertainment organizations, going on:
“Under the terms of the license, libraries will charge borrowers an amount equal to 99 cents, or the local equivalent, for every track on a music CD, or $19.99 (or the local equivalent) for every movie DVD.
“Libraries which do not honour the license will be closed until they agree to fullfil their obligations to the record companies and music studios which work so hard to create and make available such superlative product.”
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UPDATE – 9:00 am Pacific, November 29: THIS IS A SPOOF !!!! I can’t believe the number of emails I’ve had on this, including several from alarmed librarians. That people believed this in spite of all the glaring (I thought) clues says a lot about Hollywood and the corporate music industry.
Also See:
Christmas Blitz – Xmas with the MPAA and RIAA, November 23, 2006
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November 29th, 2006 at 2:47 am
they are so mad, they will think it’s a great idea!
(Their Toadie Gabriel is even claiming that they believe that Harddiskdrives are attached to internet accounts and that 2 differnt persons can have one harddrive in posession at the same time!)
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006/11/ms-lindor-seeks-more-time-to-conduct.html
November 29th, 2006 at 4:27 am
For Christ sake!!! Tell em all to get a bloody life! Its these sort of Organizations and bureaucrat’s thats infringing on ‘human rights’ for materialistic and economic gain! If i want to share my music, videos and anything else i care to share, thats my business. They themselves are the biggest hypocrites out there!!! And they couldn’t give a dam about the artist’s…….while some artist/actors may receive substantial financial reward, they themselves makes billions…….they are leeches!!!
November 29th, 2006 at 7:10 am
is it?
November 29th, 2006 at 9:03 am
No, but expect it to be reality very soon ;D
-LW-
November 29th, 2006 at 9:10 am
had me going up until the Dolph Hitler
November 29th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
The sick thing about this is you can see them doing this.
November 29th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Despite the footnote, the story is not a spoof. Read the paper below and tell me which features have been implemented so far?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
November 29th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Despite the footnote, the story is not a spoof. Read the paper below and tell me which features have been implemented so far?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
December 1st, 2006 at 12:27 am
i find it funny how you can ‘borrow’ a cd from a libary for the same price as you can ‘buy’ it from itunes… hmmmmmm