Leaked RIAA Training Video for Prosecutors - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

fredr123 · 02-20-2008, 02:37 PM

http://gizmodo.com/358648/leaked-ria...-murderers-too

This is just a short two minute clip from the video. The whole video is over 60 minutes long.

This is a leaked official RIAA training video produced with the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors why they should bust music pirates: Because it'll lead them to "everything from handguns to large quantities of cocaine [and] marijuana," not to mention terrorists and murderers!

Pagal4321 · 02-20-2008, 02:42 PM

Are these people serious?

The RIAA needs a new "Jump to Conclusion" mats!!

Bobblehead · 02-20-2008, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Pagal4321

Are these people serious?

The RIAA needs a new "Jump to Conclusion" mats!!

"Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays"

habernac · 02-20-2008, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobblehead

"Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays"

"Corporate accounting, Nina speaking......just a moment..."

corporatejay · 02-20-2008, 03:01 PM

The problem is they are talking about physically pirated discs not downloads. While it may be true that the street vendors have links to OC, the people they prosecute are 71 year old retirees who's granddaughter downloaded the new Miley Cyrus tune.

These people piss me off to no end.

fredr123 · 02-20-2008, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by corporatejay

The problem is they are talking about physically pirated discs not downloads. While it may be true that the street vendors have links to OC, the people they prosecute are 71 year old retirees who's granddaughter downloaded the new Miley Cyrus tune.

These people piss me off to no end.

Who? The people that download Miley Cyrus?

Flashpoint · 02-20-2008, 03:07 PM

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?

Bobblehead · 02-20-2008, 03:39 PM

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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?

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.

czure32 · 02-20-2008, 03:45 PM

Im at work so I cant watch the video, anyways I thought I'd jump in here with something completely off topic and take a quote so far out of context because I have nothing better to do...

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Originally Posted by Flashpoint

They are talking about real pirates

any mention on how the decrease of pirates has led to an increase in global warming?

Dan02 · 02-20-2008, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by czure32

any mention on how the decrease of pirates has led to an increase in global warming?

Flashpoint · 02-20-2008, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by czure32

Im at work so I cant watch the video, anyways I thought I'd jump in here with something completely off topic and take a quote so far out of context because I have nothing better to do...

any mention on how the decrease of pirates has led to an increase in global warming?

LOL

Well played sir.

Barnes · 02-20-2008, 09:30 PM

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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?

They aren't talking about pirates in Asia or Africa. If they were, they may actually go after one or two. They're a dangerous target and it's far easier to sue college students and single mothers. Lawyer up rather than go after criminals who have boats and guns and are making a buck mass duplicating copyrighted material.

It's a wonderful new revenue stream for them.

Flashpoint · 02-21-2008, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Barnes

They aren't talking about pirates in Asia or Africa. If they were, they may actually go after one or two. They're a dangerous target and it's far easier to sue college students and single mothers. Lawyer up rather than go after criminals who have boats and guns and are making a buck mass duplicating copyrighted material.

It's a wonderful new revenue stream for them.

The college students and single mothers who are printing up and selling CD's?

Barnes · 02-21-2008, 08:59 AM

^^Huh?

The RIAA and MPAA don't go after pirates. They go after easy targets. There is no money in having an Asian counterfeit ring busted by the cops. Entrapping and then suing Johnny Internetuser for sharing 3 songs is their new business model. It makes them money. All without the recording industry to actually have to come up with anything innovative or new.

If the stuff said in this circle jerk is what the RIAA is really concerned with, they would be going after the physical black market. They aren't.

Flashpoint · 02-21-2008, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Barnes

^^Huh?

The RIAA and MPAA don't go after pirates. They go after easy targets. There is no money in having an Asian counterfeit ring busted by the cops. Entrapping and then suing Johnny Internetuser for sharing 3 songs is their new business model. It makes them money. All without the recording industry to actually have to come up with anything innovative or new.

If the stuff said in this circle jerk is what the RIAA is really concerned with, they would be going after the physical black market. They aren't.

The video is for prosecutors going after people who are printing up pirate CD's to be sold. Not illegal downloaders. So yeah, a guy trying to unload 500 copies of the new Brittany Spears album out of the back of his car in Harlem might actually have ties to drugs and a criminal record. Which is what the video suggests.

I don't understand why the video is being lampooned. I can only assume it is by people who are under the mistaken impression it is talking about your casual downloaders. Which it isn't.