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Absolutely the best description outside WholeWheatRadio.org I’ve read of the RIAA, in a comment on a CNET story of all places:

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You know that now notorious error message you sometimes see on YouTube videos claiming the music in a video was copyrighted and had been disabled?

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Google has announced they’ll start selling books, presumably in electronic form unless they’ve extended their search algorithm to include people frantically working in libraries with magnifying glasses.

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IT News Australia is reporting that film studios are issuing an ultimatum to Aussie ISPs to "get out of the business" if they can’t stop copyright infringement. Yes, you read that right!

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And here I was thinking it was going to be a story about Disney abusing copyright extensions.

CNET News.com is reporting in an article with another one of their unambiguous URLs that six studios are dissatisfied with the way the Motion Picture Association of America has been going after copyright infringement, so their plan is to call their efforts content protection instead of anti-piracy.

I’ve got an even better term to describe their intentionally misleading activities that will save them horizontal screen real estate on their website: irrelevant.

Comment by jenny on an ABC News (Australia) article in response to a person claiming they pirate material online:

It is not pirating, it is THEFT!! People who steal from others probably don’t have any ethics, oh wait, you don’t even bother to view it, its just a protest, rubbish!!

Sorry to burst your bubble jenny [sic], but media piracy is not theft, it is copyright infringement. Let me put this in a bigger font to emphasise it:

It’s amazing how many people (and media companies) think they’re the same thing. Those silly ads that say "you wouldn’t steal a car…" that are sometimes played at the beginning of movies and DVDs don’t help either.

They’re business model is failing, and this is the best they can come up with? Collusion and intentionally misleading the public? Making examples of single mothers by suing them into oblivion? I would say what a load of bull but that’s an insult to bovine creatures.