[sven]

RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant Only For Original Vehicle Owner!!!!

The Recording Industry Association of America announced today it would be expanding its crackdown on copyright infringement by suing family members, hitchhikers and carpoolers.

Lawyers for the RIAA maintain that the radio in each car was never meant to be listened to by anyone else except the original owner of the vehicle.

Therefore, any additional passengers who listen to music on the radio in another individual's car are doing so illegally and without the express permission of the copyright holders of the respective songs that are broadcast.

RIAA attorneys were preparing to go to Federal District courts across the country to have subpoenas issued to every car maker in America in the hopes of forcing them to disclose the names and addresses of all purchasers from the last 20 years.

"We think this is a no brainer," said an RIAA spokesperson who declined to be identified. "These drivers have been illegally sharing music on their radios and their passengers have been getting a free ride for way too long," he continued.

Legal representatives for the RIAA also warned that they would especially be targeting the "big fish" like charter bus drivers and RV owners who blatantly turn up the radio volume allowing others to hear.

In addition, RIAA lawyers said they were hoping to get a court order to exhume the bodies of Scottish physicist James Clerk-Maxwell, who developed the theory of electromagnetic waves and Guglielmo Marconi, who discovered and harnessed wireless radio in order to sue both corpses for unfair business practices.

source: radio.about.com

[shareef59]

The FBI should actually investigate whatever substances these RIAA guys are smoking or snorting!!!!



Only a matter of time!!!!!

[sven]

woops,

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This Article Is Satire

oh well, it might soon happen

[XtremeMaC]

well anyways I agree with shareef59, fbi nsa cia:)
we should go and check it and fire those ppl who make such stupid stuff!.
they're playing with dvd stuff already too much.

they've managed some stuff with wma. I agree on that. but others just annoying..
especially I don't understand why there is region protection on dvd's and on dvd-players??? WHY WHY? why would I need to send my dvd-player back to set the region after changing it 5 times?!@# what kind of tech support would do such a thing? useless!!!!

[tokyodrifter]

I think the RIAA are bunch of retards.

[sven]

tokyodrifter, on Jan 29 2004, 10:54 AM, said:

I think the RIAA are bunch of retards.

so do many other people, myself included, but there to stupid to notice that.

[XtremeMaC]

I belive there should be some kind of right to protect ppls work..
but riaa is going too far with that..