January 14, 2004
I'm Scotch and Segregation
Posted by nerdling | January 14, 2004 04:43 PM
In the ongoing battle of privacy versus the corporation (including, specifically, the government and the RIAA), the LA Weekly recently published a sensationalistic little piece about the piracy raids being carried out by the RIAA's private police force. Now, I'm going to step out on a limb here and say that the actions of the RIAA are both outrageous and barely legal (oh, and racist!*), and that someone at the LA Weekly needs to do a better job of verifying quotations, particularly when quoting someone who is working against the increasingly invasive tactics of the RIAA.
* "A large percentage [of the vendors] are of a Hispanic nature," Langley said. "Today he's Jose Rodriguez, tomorrow he's Raul something or other, and tomorrow after that he's something else. These people change their identity all the time. A pictures worth a thousand words."
