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The RIAA says commercial piracy is increasingly being dominated by organized crime syndicates that are establishing low-margin, high-volume businesses. So the RIAA has responded by stepping up the efforts of its "investigators" -- which sounds like a nice way to describe their private police force -- to seize raw materials like blank CDs and CD burners, joining their brothers in arms at the MPAA's efforts, which have resulted in the raid of at least one legitimate business. Forget permission to innovate, it wouldn't be surprising to see the RIAA try to ban blank CDs, or at least put a prohibitive tax on them. Interesting, though, to see the RIAA call out organized crime now, after appropriating its traditional business model of fear and intimidation, instead of just labeling the vast majority of consumers as thieves and criminals.
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ThugLuv
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dorpus haiku
Story has only one comment?
Guaranteed dorpus.
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Re: dorpus haiku
Why do you care? Or were you posting the number 6 to show the readers yet another time of your uninformed rantings?
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Re: ThugLuv
turn in your troll license! You don't qualify anymore.
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Re: dorpus haiku
Anyway, Dorkus rocks
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Regarding the "prohibitive tax"
Almost like everything they do, isn't it?
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