[Rumori] Quasi-legal RIAA squads crack down on street vendors

[Vicki Bennett]

Hiii

IS it a hoax?  I believed it to start with cos I'll believe most 
things, and then I believed you that it's a hoax, and now I don't know. 
  Are you guessing it's a hoax or has someone owned up?

Vicki

On 9 Jan 2004, at 22:43, Every Man wrote:

> This is truly a hoax. I'm just surprised the LA Weekly bought it!
>
> James Allenspach wrote:
>
>> The RIAA now has a Secret Police Force(TM). I look forward to the 
>> press release announcing it has built itself an Evil Underground 
>> Lair(TM).
>> http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/07/news-sullivan.php
>>> Music Industry Puts Troops in the Streets
>>> Quasi-legal squads raid street vendors
>>> by Ben Sullivan
>>>
>>> Though no guns were brandished, the bust from a distance looked like
>>> classic LAPD, DEA or FBI work, right down to the black "raid" vests 
>>> the
>>> unit members wore. The fact that their yellow stenciled lettering 
>>> read
>>> "RIAA" instead of something from an official law-enforcement agency 
>>> was
>>> lost on 55-year-old parking-lot attendant Ceasar Borrayo.
>>>
>>> The Recording Industry Association of America is taking it to the 
>>> streets.
>>>
>>> Even as it suffers setbacks in the courtroom, the RIAA has over the 
>>> last
>>> 18 months built up a national staff of ex-cops to crack down on 
>>> people
>>> making and selling illegal CDs in the hood.
>
>
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