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p2pnet MPAA News | RIAA News:- “The RIAA may be merging with the IFPI,” p2pnet posted at the beginning of the year, going on, “No, this isn’t a p2pnet spoof similar to the one in 2004 where we had the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) merging with the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).”
The RIAA and IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) are nought but Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG enforcement outfits, so putting the two together doesn’t require a huge stretch of imagination.
And when you get right down to it, an RIAA / MPAA merger isn’t so far-fetched either. After all, the two entertainment cartel ‘trade’ associations are mirror images of each other, working to plant dis- and misinformation in the minds of the general public, and scam the media into carrying heavily spun, and highly inaccurate, PR puff pieces dressed up as press releases.
The two often pool resources for the common bad and now, “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,” says a p2pnet Reader’s Write.
Slugged RIAA Aand MPAA join forces against music sharing, it goes >>>
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.
Stay tuned 
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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March 8th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Another p2pnet spoof?
March 9th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Ha going crazy trying to figure out where the spoof started, but the date of the article is the clue…