The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade group which represents all
of the major and many independent record labels in the United States.  Like all good
trade associations, the RIAA does its share of political pleasantries:  lobbying Congress,
throwing lavish parties for Congressmen, financing Congressional races through PACs,
soft money and questionably-legal gifts, and so on.  Yet unlike most other trade associations,
the RIAA also monitors the internet for the illegal use of copyrighted music.

You'd be some sort of retard not to understand why people are taking music off CDs,
making it into mp3 files and uploading it to the internet -- it's free.  Why should one go
to the record store and spend between $10 and $20 for a CD when they can go to the
internet and download it (or a few tracks) for free?  They shouldn't do that because
it's stealing, it's wrong and it's just plain stupid.

Come on in, I've got lots of candy and the car's nice and warm...
 

©1998 King, d.b.a. (take that mp3 and) stick it up ya RIAA!