And for clarity, it is not a true P2P. P2P stands for Peer to Peer, and direct connection between two end users using software to link the IPs together using a software application.

MAFIAA morons dubbed this GigaTribe offering as a ‘cyberlocker’, when infact, P2P’ers describe this as a VHD. (virtual hard-drive). An example of this would be when Apple, Inc. included allocated space on .MAC accounts where we placed content and the links were distributed to file-share copyright material, software, music, or anything else that could be digitized. Apple, Inc. at one time was the largest hosting service of copyrighted material EVER, and this was 6 years ago.

file-sharing applications are popping up faster than the RIAA can send out pre-litigation letters.

I keep hearing these analogies from the MAFIAA, they read like this:

Criminalize owning of a vehicle, because it could be used in a bank robbery.

Criminalize owning of an external harddrive, because it could be used to store copyright material.

Hell, ban the internet, it could contribute to the ‘Conspiracy to Defraud the Music Industry’. omg!

Here at newly formed RIAA (Reading Industries – Formerly we called ourselves Publishers – Association of America) we are against this new thieving software.

This software is an additional assault on the reading industry. The assault started when libraries were invented by the Egyptians. It resulted in massive income losses for writers and their publishers, the hyeroglyphics copiers. As a result, libraries ended the first golden age of publishers. Then the printing press ended the second golden age of publishers.

Recently, at our last official meeting, an astonishing inconsistency in our legal system was described for the first time. Our legal adviser, Dr. James D. Lawless revealed in his very objective (commissioned by us) white paper that free file sharing is no different than book sharing, a legal activity for thousands of years. No one, not even our lobbyists, legislators and legal scholars had detected – or at least, publicly discussed – the similarity between libraries and file sharing. Clearly there is a contradiction in having public libraries and prohibiting file sharing.

Based on the previous facts we are creating a “Ban the Library Omission” to lobby for the banning of all libraries.

We strongly feel that all file sharing programs must be banned too, as they will lead to the end of the third golden age of publishers.

James D. Lawless Jr.
President
Reading Industries Association of America