RIAA/VEVO Members Caught "Pirating" NFL Game

[WangChung]

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/mus...e-at-sundance/

Over the last decade the major music labels — and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America — have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of squelching illegal file-sharing.
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Which is why my jaw dropped when I saw that VEVO, a property jointly owned by some of the biggest record labels in the world, was showing a pirated stream of an ESPN football game at its Sundance PowerStation venue last month — on no fewer than two televisions, and a pair of laptops.

Seriously? THESE are the guys that should be sued for $900 trillion. I've often though of contacting the EFF and doing such a thing; countersue the crap out of them for price fixing and racketeering.

[01Lude]

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[Chrono Detector]

Bunch of hypocrites. What, these guys can't afford a copy of the game so they pirated it?

[revenant]

I hope these guys get thrown under the bus.

[lutjens]

Typical for Big Media...do as I say, not as I do.

The elites (both political and in Big Media) are happy to permit this type of behavior amongst themselves, while denouncing common folks as immoral and unethical when they do it.

[THX1138]

Someone needs to get in touch with the NFL lawyers and go after them. (insert bad football tackle joke here)

[XSAlliN]

They're only humans - probably, they also have pirated music at home... it's the same with most people - doesn't matter in which industry they work and what their job is: cop, judge, president, priest, etc...

Only fanatics follow "idiotic rules made by immoral people".

Yes - we could burn them on a stick for not obeying the rules they impose on the rest of us wile working - but that's just a temporary satisfaction.

[stuffme]

They're only humans - probably, they also have pirated music at home... it's the same with most people - doesn't matter in which industry they work and what their job is: cop, judge, president, priest, etc...

Only fanatics follow "idiotic rules made by immoral people".

Yes - we could burn them on a stick for not obeying the rules they impose on the rest of us wile working - but that's just a temporary satisfaction.

In this case, good enough for me.

[N19h7m4r3]

In this case, good enough for me.

Aye! Need to beat them with their own stick and make them see what it feels like.