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

[Every Man]

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.