The RIAA Report
by: Daniel Riehs
WESTLAKE, Ohio—The Recording industry Association of America began its bombing campaign of Kazaa users Wednesday with the destruction of two residential neighborhoods in suburban Ohio.
"We will not waver, we will not tire," said Mitch Bainwol, President of the RIAA. "We will not falter and we will not fail."
The opening of a sustained campaign dubbed "Enduring Copyrights," the assault was accompanied by airdrops of thousands of vitamin-enriched food rations for users of legal music-downloading services such as iTunes and the new MusicMatch service.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered strong support in a speech to his own nation. He said of the file-sharers, "They were given the choice of siding with artists or siding with pornographers. They chose to side with child-pornographers, and now they are feeling the consequences of those actions."