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

[James Allenspach]

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.


jma