Meanwhile real criminals run free and more music fans feel the wrath of a copyright group growing increasingly desperate in its war on piracy.The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) must be hard pressed for tangible success stories these days with a recent report out of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo that it helped nab a suspected pirate. Yep, that's right - 1 "suspected" pirate. Was he a major ringleader of some clandestine music piracy cartel? The Pablo Escobar of piracy? From the looks of it he wasn't or the IFPI would've repeated his threat to the free world over and over and over again and how life for the music industry will be just peaches and cream from now on. Instead what we get is a complete waste of law enforcement time and effort cracking down on those bastions of law breakers internet cafes. From their own press release: Civil Police in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo conducted more than 335 raids on internet cafés, known locally as Lan Houses, across the state in the second week of January. Insane right? Some 600 police officers were dispatched to raid more than 335 Internet cafes. The result? A single arrest. Doesn't Brazil have more pressing problems like drug cartels, leftist guerrillas, endemic corruption, and lawless barrios? I wonder how many crimes, murders, assaults, etc., occurred that day that wouldn't have otherwise if the IFPI wasn't so preoccupied with kids in a South American Internet cafe listing to music for free. I guess the IFPI won't be content until the whole world hates them.  |
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