p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Pssst. Wanna buy a CD? And maybe some crack?

Because according to the RIAA and MPAA, the two go hand-in-hand.

Over the years, the corporate music and movie cartels have claimed P2P file sharers are responsible everything from low birth-weight in cows to to America’s disintegrating economy.

There are, however, two perennial favourites: online porn and drugs.

The movie and music industries are now, and always have been, top buyers of booze and illegal substances of all kinds. They’re absolutely indispensable forms of currency in LaLaLand and other studio and label environs, where porn and sex are also staples.

No two areas of hard-core commerce are more corrupt than the big music and movie industries, but such is the power of corporate PR and liberal handouts of cash and favours, they successfully pass themselves off as honest corporate citizens slowly being driven out of business by wicked file sharers.

One of the most popular movie downloads of the moment is the RIAA thriller snappily entitled In Trial.

"The actors skillfully deadpan several remarkably funny lines during a scene in which the characters attempt to draw a tenuous connection between drug dealing and music piracy – statements that add a high degree of levity to the film," said Ars Technica in a review.

p2pnet reader Mr Roboto also had some thoughts on the subject.

"Being a (Recovering) Heroin addict for 8 years I have never bought smack and been offered … the newest pirated Huey Lewis album," he says in a Reader’s Write, going on:

"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."

In Trial, "was intended to motivate prosecutors to be more aggressive in attacking music pirates, arguing that music piracy is linked to everything from handguns and illegal drugs to murder and terrorism," says online student pub Arizona Daily Wildcat, going on:

"The response: Internet humorist David Wong, of the Web site pointlesswasteoftime.com, concocted a satirical piece several years ago which has now taken on an oddly prophetic nature. His thesis? A link exists between file sharing, crack cocaine use and child molestation. It really doesn’t get any better than this. Believe me, I’m dying to make some horribly caustic remark about how music sharing has turned most of my friends into drug-addicted radical terrorists, but the impact is significantly dulled by the fact that a number of RIAA execs apparently think that’s true.

"On the plus side, there’s no better argument for the fact that the RIAA is a sleazy organization that subsists on fear tactics and has no concern whatsoever for the consumers who continue, for some bizarre reason, to support it. Yet the claims of the RIAA aren’t even close to convincing. Who, exactly, are they trying to fool? And if the RIAA is so out of touch with reality and the general populace that it thinks this will really strike a blow against illegal file trading, what right do they have to continue existing as a commercial entity? This is the kind of tactic you’d expect a cult to use, not a cartel-esque organization like the RIAA.

"The free market should put its boot down on the RIAA once and for all. Luckily, laughable tactics like this are more likely to push people into file-sharing than to scare them away, and that’s just the way it should be.

"Say what you will about the morality of file-sharing, but we can all agree that anything which annoys the RIAA is probably a net good."

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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