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from the vaults

RIAA: Murderers, Terrorists, And Other Criminal Minds May Be Graduating To Pirating Music

Yesterday the RIAA-produced video In Trial, which covers the societal dangers of music piracy, made its way out to torrent sites, and among its contents are instructions on how to get RIAA investigators qualified as expert witnesses, a guide to identifying pirated CDs, and the above bit, about the links between people who profit from pirated music and people who deal weapons, populate terror cells, and murder their fellow man for sport. Surely I'm not the only person who thinks that this particular bit on the "kill 'em all" impulses of miscreants dealing in fifth-generation copies of Graduation would hit home a little more effectively if it were accompanied by a bangin' soundtrack? [Listening Post / Gizmodo]

12:40 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by n/a: So essentially what their saying is this: When you go to a black market area that sells guns and drugs and is plagued by violence, they also sell pirated CDs sometimes. Who would have suspected that violent career criminals don't respect copyright? more »

James Brown now actually may in fact be dead, but the legacy of L.A. Style lives on thanks to[This dumb joke is factually inaccurate as L.A. Style were actually Dutch, not Belgian. Thanks to reader undisputedwes. I blame all the ecstacy.] A new digitized online storehouse that has ripped approximately six decades of Belgian music onto one big ol' hard drive, promising all the Agathocles and Lords of Acid you can take. [Billboard]

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