This is a seriously poor story of the RIAA and the Secret Service teaming up to nab some music/dvd pirates. Literal pirates who were selling material. It then goes on to lump us all in with them as fellow pirates. You have to wonder how strong the push on the media is to darken the image of the file trader.
The entertainment industry’s relentless war on piracy took two new turns this week with the Secret Service cooperating with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in a New York City raid and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filing a lawsuit against eight EBay sellers allegedly offering pirated DVDs on the popular auction site.
On Monday, Secret Service agents, aided by a team of RIAA investigators, hit what the RIAA characterized as a “major music piracy operation” in Queens, seizing 35,000 finished CD-Rs, 10,000 DVDs, the equivalent of 421 CD-R burners and the arrest of three individuals.
The raid was the culmination of a two-month investigation into what the RIAA claims was the largest supplier of pirated music to individual vendors, retail locations, and distribution centers on Canal Street in Manhattan. Officials also seized eight Rimage Imprinters, one high-end color copier valued at $75,000 and other equipment and raw materials used in the manufacturing process. Approximately 25 percent of the product seized was Latin music.
The RIAA’s New York City raid represents another victory in a year of anti-piracy successes for the music industry. The trade group has triumphed in the courts with cases against peer-to-peer networks including Audiogalaxy, Aimster and Songspy and download sites like Listen4ever.com. It has also seized a record number of counterfeit product.
There is also a write up on the MPAA lawsuit against 8 ebay sellers.
You can read the entire story here.
Related Posts
- RIAA Extends Anti-Piracy Campaign
- “US government behind Pirate Bay raid”
- Kazaa Office Raid Upheld
- RIAA tries to Strong-Arm Mexico
- More RIAA terror tactics
Loading ...
