RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team 420
cancan writes "The NY times is carrying an article about how the RIAA is hiring hip hop artists to make mix tapes, and then
helping the police raid their studios. In the case of DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon, they were raided by SWAT teams with their guns drawn. The local police chief said later that they were 'prepared for the worst.' Men in RIAA jackets helped cart away 'evidence'. Just the same, 'Record labels regularly hire mixtape D.J.'s to produce CDs featuring a specific artist. In many cases, these arrangements are conducted with a wink and a nod rather than with a contract; the label doesn't officially grant the D.J. the right to distribute the artist's songs or formally allow the artist to record work outside of his contract.' " This is more of the shenanigans that we've previously discussed on the site.
Who would have thought? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmns... I for one welcome our new Alien overlords (a frontal lobotomy and rectal probe would be less painful than having to deal with the *AAs of the world). Fuck the corporations!
ObMonkey Island Re:Criminal Liability? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Are you kidding? Here's some realistic methods. (Score:1, Funny)
Just a thought. [wikipedia.org]
I support the RIAA this time (Score:4, Funny)
Re:entrapment (Score:3, Funny)
The nazis respond to a complaint about anne frank != entrapment
I can basically do whatever the fuck I want to you and then phone the cops.
Re:There's a certain point where... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Whoopsie, forgot the comma (Score:3, Funny)
Good Work (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I support the RIAA this time (Score:2, Funny)
Re:There's a certain point where... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Zappa (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I support the RIAA this time (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RIAA flips out (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Whoopsie, forgot the comma (Score:5, Funny)
Wink and Nod (Score:4, Funny)
Mixer: whats in it for me?
RIAA: We are going to raid your studio on Friday morning with SWAT, you will be famous
Mixer: How much will this fame cost me?
RIAA: You do this or we will just raid your studio and sue you for everything your worth
since you own recording equipment and are not giving us money
Re:Zappa (Score:1, Funny)
Signed
The President
GNAA
Re:Zappa (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Zappa (Score:5, Funny)
I thought they were DJs, which means they'd have to first sample some real hip-hop "gangstas" gunning down RIAA executives, then perform a mix of those samples.
- RG>
Re:Other laws? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ObMonkey Island Re:Criminal Liability? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let's... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Zappa (Score:3, Funny)
The OP didn't say that the coworker recognized Gallagher. If he did, it was rather rude; if he didn't, it's just a funny coincidence.
That reminds me of the old (apocryphal?) story about Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners. Ms. Martin went into a department store looking for a coffee spoon (or something like that) in a particular pattern, to replace one she had lost. The clerk couldn't find coffee spoons in that pattern, but offered a teaspoon as a replacement.
Clerk: "Surely, it doesn't matter."
Martin: "It matters to me."
Clerk: "What, are you Miss Manners or something?"
Martin: [lifts eyebrow]
Clerk: [realizing] "Oh my God!"
(Granted, Gallagher is probably more recognizable than Miss Manners.