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Riaa Orders Us Navy To Surrender
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Mon Nov 25, 2002 @ 2:33am |
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By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 24/11/2002 at 22:43 GMT In a timely reminder of who's really in charge here, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has mounted a daring raid on the US Navy. Acting unilaterally at the behest of the RIAA, Navy officials confiscated 100 computers on suspicion of harboring illegally downloaded MP3s, The Capital, an Annapolis, MD daily. A Naval official quoted confirms the raid, adding that punishment ranges from "court martial to loss of leave and other restrictions". For the RIAA - there are no half measures: you're either with them, or against them. So even if you're risking having your ass blown off for your country, there's no mercy. It's no picnic in the Navy, as many Register readers serving in the forces remind us. From a terrific account of Gulf War combat by a US marine sniper in the new Harper's magazine we learn that shortly before entering a live combat, infantry are required to remove "foreign material" from their packs: letters from women who aren't their girlfriends or wives, and pornography, because in the event of death the personal effects will be dispatched to their next of kin in their entirety. So have MP3s now joined this list of "foreign material"? Any Reg readers in the know? ® |
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