phrackingtoast on RIAA training video
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- We of the P2P sharing communities thank phrackingtoast.
A so-called training video telling lawyers how to train RIAA experts and nail file sharers has been leaked, as p2pnet report on Monday.
It’ll make great fodder for video lampoon creators and others of a similar ilk. But it isn’t much good for anything else.
“This training video, made by NDAA-TV, was sent by the RIAA to prosecutors across the nation,” phrackingtoast posted on The Pirate Bay.
“This torrent includes a rip of the DVD, and a scanned version of the letter which was sent along with the DVD. Quite frankly, the entire thing is freaking hilarious. It has convinced me never to participate in the violation of intellectual property laws ever again. Right after this torrent.”
To digress, one of the big questions is:
Who got hold of it, and how?
To undigress, both questions can now be answered 
“I came into possession of this video through a close friend,” phrackingtoast tells p2pnet, going on >>>
It was lucky. He happens to hold a position in the criminal prosecutorial system. He is a prosecutor of felonies, which is what makes this video such a wonderful illustration of just how overboard the media industry has gone in their persecutions of pirates. Should downloading music ever be considered a *felony*?
My contact knows my views on the current state of intellectual property law in the United States. I tend to be somewhat outspoken on the subject.
Obviously, when I saw the envelope in his office with the attractive and oh-so-professional RIAA/NDAA letterhead protruding from the top, I could not resist.
I begged him to let me have it, and since he tends to sympathize with those of us who hold less respect for IP rights, he consented.
I was expecting the video to be epic. I had no idea, however, that it would compare pirates to terrorists and drug dealers. It was too good to be true.
It was a wonderful find, and a perfect example of how misinformed the legal system is on the issues of piracy.
The RIAA is deluded. They have a warped perception of how media distribution should work in our high-tech world. They refuse to adapt. Instead, they stick to their age-old business model, they cry foul, and they persecute pirates. They recruit friends in high places in the legal system. They have succeeded in painting us as the enemy through their propaganda campaigns.
We are not the enemy. We are the new generation of media consumers.
We should be their allies.
Will the RIAA’s Deborah Robinson and Frank Walters, who star in the production, be seeking phrackingtoast’s identity so they can try to get him on copyright infringement?
heh
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Enjoy
And, definitely stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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February 21st, 2008 at 9:42 am
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080220-reviewing-the-riaas-reefer-madness-for-the-digital-age.html
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/02/riaa-training-v.html
February 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am
Also see http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035
Cheers!
February 21st, 2008 at 10:28 am
“We are the new generation of media consumers.”
Consumerism is the problem. But most consumers pay for what they eat. You are a predator.
February 21st, 2008 at 10:59 am
“We are not the enemy” but they are; so let get rid of them all!
February 21st, 2008 at 11:03 am
” But most consumers pay for what they eat. ”
Most consumers do not have to continue to pay, week after week, after they have
eaten it, since once they have paid for the food, they can do anything they
wish with it. Do you ‘rent’ milk ?
” You are a predator. ”
If you are a record label .. yes, you are.
You prey on the artist.
Easy to do since up till now you have held all the keys to all the
existing media outlets.
You can make the artists do or say whatever you want them to, with the threat of
never being heard on mainstream media of anykind.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am
” Consumerism is the problem. But most consumers pay for what they eat. ”
Now THIS is funny.
Considering that AllofMP3 proved that ‘consumers’ WILL pay for a legal
option ( thus competing with free ), en masse.
Proof that CUSTOMERS will do the right thing, for the right price.
Funny how the labels and their shills CONTINUE TO IGNORE THIS FACT..
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Being a (Recovering) Heroin addict for 8 years I have never bought smack and been offered to buy the newest pirated Huey Lewis album. I mean this is obviously a last ditch effort to sway the only people left that might be sympathetic. It’s really pathetic and morally wrong to dis-inform people like this. Drug dealers (especially in the nation’s ghetto’s) are the least likely to pirate music CD’s because of the upfront cost of starting up. Also they can make more in 3-4 hours than a guy selling pirated CD’s.
This reminds me of the war on drugs and the way they continue to dis-inform. The side effect is that kids have no idea on how to safely use drugs they are inevitably going to try.
A revolution is coming, politically as well as socially in the U.S. We need to oust these old mother fuckers and their old ass system of “Legal” rape of artists as well as there customers.