Joint RIAA MPAA CD funfest
p2pnet news MPAA | RIAA News:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA and Hollywood’s MPAA have come yet another step closer to merging.
The two korporate kopyright kop outfits helped, “Atlanta public officials … destroy more than one million counterfeit CDs and DVDs,” they brag in a joint puff release.
Heartily patting each other on the back were Fulton County sheriff and district attorney Myron Freemon and Paul Howard, jr; the RIAA’s Brad Buckles; the MPAA’s Kevin Suh; and, an unnamed supernumerary from the Atlanta police department.
According to a recent report by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), based on creative, and entirely unsupported, data supplied by the entertainment cartels, “global losses from physical piracy to the U.S. sound recording industry, according to IPI, are estimated to be more than $1.6 billion annually,” says the RIAAMPAA (pronounced ReeAMpah).
“Combining the latest data on worldwide piracy of recorded music with multipliers from a well established U.S. government model, this study concludes that recorded music piracy costs American workers significant losses in jobs and earnings, and governments substantial lost tax revenue.”
The above quote came from “a colourful but fact-starved ‘report’ put about by the so-called Institute for Policy Innovation, the release of which sparked an interesting, but never concluded, exchange between p2pnet’s Jon Newton and IPI president Tom Giovanetti,” p2pnet posted last September.
Yes, it’s probably the same report as the one cited by ReeAMpah and counts for about -50 on a ten-point scale of reliability.
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April 16th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Aren’t CDs and DVDs containing a dangerous material bisphenol A?
Why is my tax money used for this farce then?
April 16th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
$1.6 billion means that everyone is buying 1 CD less than what cartels want.
If 25% stopped buying CDs completely, this should hit them way harder. Let’s do it!
April 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
What idiots they are.
/sigh
April 16th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
My sister bough a DVD with an accompanying CD from the worst of the worst because they are the main instigator of the sue them all campain: Vivendi Universal! She did not know! Dam! And I could not return it Dam! Dam! Dam!
So I went into the store and destroyed 27 copies that obviously will not be sold. Then I ripped both of them created Divx ISO and MP3 files and seeded all of it on all the major p2p network I am aware off.
I am now happy because I am sure that her purchase was not profitable for these pigs at Vivendi.
Boycoot the RIAA/MPAA! Eradicate the parasites!
April 16th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
What “costs American workers significant losses in jobs and earnings, and governments substantial lost tax revenue.â
is the fact that both the RIAA and the MPAA are tax exempted!
April 17th, 2008 at 5:05 am
They’re tax exempted? How could that be? Are they non-profit organizations?
^^ Great to see someone who takes the situation seriously
April 17th, 2008 at 6:25 am
These are worse than scifags!