Hilarious RIAA training video online - via p2pNet News

It’s called In Trial and it starts off with a judge’s gavel slamming down onto a wooden pad.

Hard.

The latest Hollywood courtroom flick?

Lawyer drama, Yes. Hollywood, No —- unless the MPAA had a hand in it which, these days, is entirely possible.

Because In Trial is a flick made jointly by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and the National District Attorneys Association, with Jonathan Lamy, Cara Duckworth and Liz Kennedy (no ladies first at the RIAA) as the points of contact.

Starring ex-prosecutor Deborah Robinson and Frank Walters (right), an ex-Maryland State trooper, it was made to “assist in the training of U.S. prosecutors responsible for handling music piracy cases”.

It includes footage from “surveillance” videos and, “techniques on how to identify illegal sound recordings and highlights,” not to mention, “examples of how illegal music is sold”.

And here’s the kicker.

It even claims to provide instructions on, and we quote, “qualifying an RIAA investigator as an expert”.

So that’s where Doug Jacobson and MediaSentry acquired their skills!

This last bit is particularly ripe given the RIAA’s consistent failure to qualify anyone as anything when it comes to providing technical evidence.

It, ” compliments [the] RIAA’s continued in-person training sessions available to all law enforcement officials interested in learning how to effectively prosecute those who engage in music piracy,” says the RIAA earnestly.

So that’s how they spent the money they scammed out of those university students.

You can download it from Mininova here http://www.mininova.org/tor/1182553

We wanted to get this online ASAP so it can be as widely dispersed as possible.

The cut on the left is from what’s supposed to be a hidden surveillance camera showing two hardened criminals engaged in illicitly handling Big 4 contraband ‘product’.

This is going to provide YouTube (and other) fodder for months, Nay!, years to come. ;)

Definitely stay tuned.

Source: p2pNet News