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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
This video isn't about the people who steal music with illegal downloads. They are talking about real pirates - people who sell large amounts of bootleg CD's. So yeah, there probably are prior convictions and some drug contacts. Terrorist connections are a stretch, but they wanted to have a talking point for the Feds, and mail fraud isn't that sexy.
So who's really overreacting? The guys making the video, or the internet surfers pretending it's talking about downloads?
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True, but with the lawsuits the RIAA have been filing and the methods they have been using, it is pretty easy to believe the worst of the RIAA.
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