Recording, movie industries lobby for permission to deceive

Los Angeles Times ^ | April 7, 2007 | Dawn C. Chmielewski and Marc Lifsher

[newzjunkey]

...In recent letters to state Sen. Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro), the trade groups said the proposed legislation was written too broadly and could undermine anti-piracy efforts. They said investigators sometimes pose as someone else to obtain bootlegged CDs or movies and to break into online piracy rings...

Hollywood succeeded in killing a similar bill last year. Other opponents of the bill included the California Chamber of Commerce and the Direct Marketing Assn.

[newzjunkey]

Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) is on the committee considering this bill. She played Zelda on Dobie Gillis.

We should support efforts to KILL the MPAA/RIAA exemption because it gives them special status, almost police-like powers.

[APFel]

This is nothing new. BBS systems were busted with the oversight of software companies. But now that MP3s are so popular, this thuggish nonsense has garnered the attention of mr. and mrs. John Q. whomevers. The RIAA et. al are playing the same tune Novell played 15 years ago.

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[abt87]

If they could they would just bust open people’s doors and take their hard drives for “evidence.”

[Antonello]

Lying through deception isn’t necessarily an illegal act.

As an analogy, suppose your car got stolen and you suspected the rabble that hangs out at a nearby seedy, rundown garage took it and chopped it for parts. There is nothing illegal about approaching them while posing as someone that is looking for cheap, no questions asked parts for that model car in order to obtain evidence to make your case.

Feel free to tell me how RIAA investigators hanging out on song-swapping newsgroups fishing for pirated songs is any different.

[bpjam]

Are they not just admitting that they already deceived us when they kept saying that Jennifer (J-Lo) Lopez could sing and act?? I'm confused.....

Sheila Kuhl is a midget dike, btw. She is an angry little troll who spends all her time pushing the queer agenda and trying to steal our guns.

[antiRepublicrat]

We should support efforts to KILL the MPAA/RIAA exemption because it gives them special status, almost police-like powers.

Why have it killed? I'm a copyright holder, and it would be kind of fun to be able to pretext legally. Hey, you know, I think the RIAA may have some pirated copies of my programs on their computers. (starts dialing...)

RIAA help desk? Hi, this is Mitch Bainwol [RIAA head], and my VPN has been screwing up. Can you help me get back into the network and my system again? Thanks.