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p2pnet news | RIAA News:- I’m still feeling pretty ropy and I was just about to log off for the day when I saw an email from Jazz.
She’s one of p2pnet’s headline spotters, so to speak, and of course, I had to look.
“Hope you’re feeling better and to cheer you up, have a look at this,” she says, referring to the pic on the right.
It’s brilliant and it’s from Ryan Paul’s Ars Technica post on the RIAA training video farce.
In the post, “The main characters are Jim Dedman, a tepid district attorney with a submissive attitude; Deborah Robinson, a smooth-talking lawyer from the RIAA’s anti-piracy division; and Frank Walters, a former Maryland State Trooper turned RIAA investigator,” says Paul, going on:
Dedman’s deferential tone contrasts sharply with Robinson’s authoritative confidence, a juxtaposition that is intended to convey to the audience insight into the nature of the relationship between the RIAA and the law. Although the character Robinson insists that the RIAA’s function in piracy legal proceedings is to serve prosecutors rather than dictate policy, the film’s portrayal of her interaction with the sycophantic Dedman makes a bold subtextual statement about the RIAA’s position of dominance. Robinson’s implausible denial of the RIAA’s control is a hanging lampshade that mocks the RIAA’s rhetorical style.
“I often found myself laughing,” Paul says, adding:
“The actors skillfully deadpan several remarkably funny lines during a scene in which the chara andcters attempt to draw a tenuous connection between drug dealing and music piracy - statements that add a high degree of levity to the film.”
Say no more. Simply click here for a download and see for yourself (sung to the tune of When will they ever learn 
)
And Oh Yeh, the pic on the right? “In both appearance and demeanor, the character of Frank Walters was very clearly inspired by Walter Sobchak, the high-strung Vietnam War veteran played by John Goodman in the 1998 classic The Big Lebowski,” says Ars Technica.
Cheers! And Over and Out for the day ….
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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February 21st, 2008 at 10:15 am
That is Walters on the left?
February 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
“Frank Walters, a former Maryland State Trooper turned RIAA investigator”
You mean turned terrorist and traitor for helping and assisting foreign corporations of parasites to terrorize the world citizen!
We did not send the right guys at Gatanamo. We can change that!
February 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Drug dealing and music piracy…boy that’s a stretch. Last time I knew, drugs cost money. File sharing doesn’t, which I am sure is the RIAA’s bottom line in where they are headed. So how does one go from no money transfered to paying for drugs? Don’t tell me that even the RIAA is fool enough to suggest that their “product” is worth enough to trade straight up for these sort of drugs? Somehow I doubt any drug dealer would be in business for long if they accepted that sort of “currency”.
Of course this is nothing short of propaganda trying again to push the idea that infringement is the equivalent of major criminal activities.
But then again, I haven’t watched the vid and have no plans in doing so. I can get better material to waste my time on by reading some sci-fi novel. At least that might have an entertaining theme. On the face of it, I see nothing entertaining in the supposed theme of the vid offered. Other than that of the slap stick comedy sort.
As far as this “Frank Walters” goes, the music industry long ago proved if you throw enough money at it, some one is bound to step up to offer to take it. Further proved long ago is that if they push long and hard enough, someone will buy the tripe put out as being real and will actually do things on their own without payment.
In all this, these major labels have done their best to equate piracy as in the selling from bootlegs to equal file sharing. In spite of all their efforts, including gaining access to schools both in the uni level and the lower grades to preach copyright without paying attention to both sides of the equation, the message they are putting out is more one of farce where they lack the honesty to realize fact from fiction.
*note: I nearly deleted this post because of the false message of posting too quickly continually appears at first post atttempt.
February 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
jon, the link doesn’t work
February 21st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
^^ Thanks. Fixed.
Cheers!
February 21st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Am I to believe that the Police Academy movies are a sober and accurate representation of the US legal system as well? They might as well threaten the Taliban with an endless string of telemarketer calls while their at it.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
I have a copy of this and think its a huge joke, how many people go to a crackhouse to get a CD…
From where they make the jump to cd piracy to drugs and terrorism is beyond me. It has no connection that I am fundamentaly aware of. Maybe its like cigarettes a gateway drug to pot and cocaine. But as far as I am aware when my daugter downloaded her copy of britteny spears new album I am certain that I recall she didnt have a line of coke next to the keyboard. If anything the only connection between drugs and music is from the artists using it themselves. If anything people like Robert Downey JR are constantly strung up on cocaine and whatever else they can get. Maybe if anything the MPAA are a gateway to drug usage and selling. The companies make people a star, ever work them, they get addicted to meth and they release the movie to theatre and video so who are the real criminals? The MPAA and RIAA make money off of the sensationalism of their contracted artists. Amy Whinehouse or however you spell it, its not like they are not aware of her drug usage and are saying “” WAIT!!! we cant support this artist.. she/he is on drugs , getting the money from legal sales of it to buy illegal product.”" the industry will never say that or admit to the world that they like it when a few celebrities are cranked out or messed up. Sadly to say sometimes people are popular for the decisions they make, many do drugs and are famous because of the contraversy they provide. And large companies and corps give leway to these artists/people because of the money they/it brings in.
Anyhow thats my 2 cents