Yesterday, while researching an old New York Global Times edition of April 1, 1910, I discovered this amazing article, which I can reproduce here, not because the article’s copyright has expired (they never do) but because the New York Global Times no longer exists due to the collapse of paper based newspaper readership in America.

RIAA AND MPAA JOIN FORCES AGAINST MUSIC SHARING

Reporter for New York Global Times: Robert Von Haggard

The Restaurant Industries Association of America (RIAA) and the Music Performers Association of America (MPAA) have, we have learned, joined forces to prevent the sharing of music though the new device known as vitrola, an invention of Thomas Edison and radio, an Italian invention, a fact denied by most Americans. Mr. Al Capone has been hired to represent RIAA and MPAA.

John Rice, a restaurant owner and the president of RIAA and Bill Singer of MPAA have issued a joint letter to the membership of RIAA and MPAA. We have obtained a copy of the letter from a RIAA employee that asked that his name not be given because he has not been authorized to speak of the letter. This is the text of the letter

Dear RIAA and MPAA members:

Our industry and jobs depends heavily on the music performed at restaurants to bring in customers. We see this new device invented by that phony and unschooled inventor, Edison, as a threat to the livelihood of the artists and chefs that we develop and work in our restaurants. Our consultant, Mr. Albert Capone of Capone Law (Capone), of Chicago tell us that each song shared to the public by the recording companies will result in 10 less customers visits to a restaurant, as customers stay at home to listen to music. The customer loss could be as much as 100 customers per record sold, Capone tells us, if that other new invention, the radio, is purchased by as low as 10 percent of the population. We, and the American economy, could, says Capone’s statistics, loose 44 percent of restaurant customers and jobs.

While Capone advises that it is very unlikely that radio will be successful he suggests that we be on the watch, just in case.

Because the livelihood of musical performers that work in restaurants is at risk, the Restaurant Industries Association of America (RIAA) and the Musical Performers Association of America (MPAA) have joined forces to fight the illegal sharing of music through new technologies such the vitrola and the radio. Capone estimates that about one million music performers will loose their jobs as restaurants and clubs and piano bars are shut down as customers stay home to listen to a vitrola to satisfy their crave for music.

Therefore we announce that we have designated Capone as our congressional lobbyist and legal representative. Capone will also advise us on tax and general legal matters. We picked Capone because of their experience and reputation. Capone’s mission will be to obtain changes in the copyright law and judicial decisions to make sure that sharing music through new inventions is prohibited. Capone will also identify and make settlement offers on our behalf to persons that may already be sharing music by playing their vitrola or radios in public places such as offices, workplaces and living rooms. Settlement offers will be made too to companies that manufacture the vitrola and radio devices and the records played therein.

Capone will pursue, in the event that vitrolas and radios are allowed to share music, legislation to add a Restaurant and Performer tax levy to the devices.

Capone will also advise us on the possibility of buying the vitrola and radio patents. We then would not license anyone for manufacturing the devices. This of course would be a temporary solution, as patents, unlike copyrights, do expire in a reasonably short time Capone is already negotiating with the inventors.

We are defending the rights of performers and chefs and our investments in their careers as well as protecting the American economy from a possible depression due to reduced eating by the American public.

As Capone makes progress on this pursuit, we will keep you informed.

Please keep this letter is confidential.

Sincerely

John Rice (RIAA) and Bill Singer (MPAA)

The New York Global Times tried to contact RIAA and MPAA for comment and were referred to Capone Law. The New York Global Times tried to contact Mr. Albert Capone. A Capone Law employee who answered the telephone said Mr. Capone was doing time on some tax matters and was unavailable.

Next thing, it will be discovered it isn’t working or it is not selective enough for the purpose. Of course it is now up to the uni’s to not only solve that for them but to fund the newer software development as well as equipment purchases to make it happen.

Where the real goof is that the ISPs such as ComCast are claiming that only 5% their users are using 50% of the bandwidth. Anything strike you as similar in this claim to the one about the amount of college students downloading? I’m also curious as to how this internet filter is gonna prevent Joe College from bringing by his external USB hard drive for a bit of sharing. You know… get all you want from this 500 gig drive and while you’re there how about these for me when you return the drive. Not only will it probably be faster than the uni’s filtered connection but it will allow more to be shared at a time. And it will have gone underground where it is harder to detect this sort of sharing. Just as it has always in the past, this law will make it ever harder to find the sharers, it will do nothing to prevent sharing. I’ve yet in all these years seen the sneaker net go down.

hahahahaha more will goto prison )))))))

bye bye incestors

They do have bomb making ebooks, and child porn, I seen a few nutjobs did thay, So YAY! I’m gonna shut P2P Networks down for good. ”

All of that stuff can be found just as easily through normal http ( google searches etc )
methods.

Best eliminate public use of the entire internet.

Sorry, my mistake .. they ARE working on that, aren’t they ?

They do have bomb making ebooks, and child porn, I seen a few nutjobs did thay, So YAY! I’m gonna shut P2P Networks down for good.

Bye Bye Bitforrent!

Cuz after all, 100% of zero is still zero.

http://blog.brokep.com/2008/01/24/estimation-constipation/

Note that there are only about 9 million swedes all together according to swedish sources

Enough said.

The RIAA/MPAA are doing the same: lying lying lying and lying! The Nazi Gobel once say the biger the lies the more it will be believed The Bush administration and the RIAA/MPAA companies member have listen well to Gobel. Unfortunatly for them he was wrong and now it is time to pay back for all the lies. Hopefully we will be able to jail the first and put out of business the second.