Dick Cheney new RIAA president
p2pnet news view Politics | RIAA:- Former US vice-president Richard Bruce ‘Dick’ Cheney has been appointed president of the RIAA.
Cheney’s duties will include overseeing senior RIAA personnel currently seconded to the Obama administration’s Department of Justice, and liasing with US vice-president Joe Biden.
Cheney will be responsible for developing and implementing official DoJ copyright infringement and anti-file sharing policies in accordance with established music industry business practices.
Helped draft milestone document
When he became eligible for the draft, during the Vietnam War, Cheney applied for, and received, five deferments, says the Wikipedia.
In 1989, Washington Post writer George C. Wilson interviewed him as the next Secretary of Defense and, when asked about his deferments, Cheney is quoted as responding, “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.”
It is believed he was at the time working secretly with RIAA executive director Henry Brief, helping to draft the milestone document which in 1998 was to be formally adopted as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Political acumen and immaculate connections
With Cheney as senior RIAA administrator, Halliburton, Blackwater and DynCop security staff will be assisting the RIAA, FBI, CIA and SPCA in the identification and apprehension of file sharers and criminal copyright infringers.
‘”We are delighted to have Dick join us,” said RIAA chairman Mitch Bainwol in a statement.
“His deep knowledge of the music industry, and his political acumen, will be invaluable, helping to help the RIAA ensure artists are properly recompensed.”
Outgoing president Cary ‘Tough Love’ Sherman has been named executive chairman of the newly formed Penguin Inseminators Social Services Outreach Frontier Foundation.
The Recording Industry Association of America is owned and operated by Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (Canada).
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
August, 2009
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August 29th, 2009 at 9:13 am
no way… this is satire, right jon? please. I haven’t even had a complete cup of coffee.
August 29th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Next, music (and only music) sharers will be tortured.
I suspect the music Guantamamo is being secretly built at the Bush ranch.
At last artists will be compensated (really buried) , as were the kids who died in Irak and Afghanistan thanks to the Bush-Chaney priorities.
August 29th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Hint hint -
Penguin Inseminators Social Services Outreach Frontier Foundation
Cheers!
August 29th, 2009 at 9:43 am
For real? Is this serious? I have doubts. Could you link to another source that confirms this?
I knew the RIAA was evil. but this is just ridiculous!
August 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Hint hint -
“Halliburton, Blackwater and DynCop security staff will be assisting the RIAA, FBI, CIA and SPCA”
Cheers!
August 29th, 2009 at 10:24 am
This is a joke, right?
August 29th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Hint hint -
‘SPCA’
Cheers!
August 29th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Penguin Inseminators Social Services Outreach Frontier Foundation = P.I.S.S.O.F.F.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:29 am
@ Jazz:
Thanks.
Cheers!
August 29th, 2009 at 10:30 am
http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/Organizations/Government+Bodies/Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation/00p1d7p03×25S/1
LOL!
August 29th, 2009 at 10:36 am
“I wonder who is hated most: Dick Cheney or the RIAA?” Monty – http://www.businessinsider.com/judge-awards-675k-riaa-tenenbaum-case-2009-8
August 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am
The problem for the RIAA is how to top a stunning year of lawsuits against 12 year old cancer patients and grandmothers. It won’t be easy, but I have an idea: the RIAA should hire Dick Cheney. Think about it.
http://thinkorthwim.com/index.php?tag=dick-cheney
August 29th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Argh! It worked, I fell in the trap. Come on Jon, this is a bit harsh to read when you’ve just waken up
August 29th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Look at that pictre !!!!
lmao
August 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Right about now would be an extremely good time for “Dick” Cheney’s near-legendary “bum ticker” (heart) to take a permanent break.
August 29th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Penguin Inseminators Social Services Outreach Frontier Foundation (PISS OFF)
August 29th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
His deep knowledge of the music industry
hehehe
August 30th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Did you all know that the word “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary?
August 30th, 2009 at 10:50 am
a 2yo dream realized:
http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/03/23/riaa-voted-worst-company-in-america-2007/
August 30th, 2009 at 11:08 am
you know, now that i think about it cheney is already running the riaa, at least in spirit. with last weeks announcement on warrant-less laptop border searches, homeland security let the big media cat out of the proverbial bag when it admitted copyrights trump probable cause!
“The Department of Homeland Security defended such searches as necessary to detect information about potential terrorism plots as well as other crimes such as child pornography and copyright infringement.” – Reuters
“The new directives announced today strike the balance between respecting the civil liberties and privacy of all travelers while ensuring DHS can take the lawful actions necessary to secure our borders.” – DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE57R22620090828
sorry ms. napolitano but throwing out the constitution to “secure our borders” against unauthorized hannah montana episodes is not my idea of balance. i’m shocked you’d even suggest it.
– js.
August 30th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I’d like to go hunting with Cheney.
August 30th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
cant wait to read about Blackwater mercs storming the home of a single mother of a 13 year old in the name of copyright.
i think this is very very bad for all of us.
see you in helvete big dick.
August 31st, 2009 at 6:27 am
cheney is the last of the surviving minutemen…don’t count him out!