RIAA Alleges Illegal Filesharing on Mars
Posted by Matthew on Thursday February 24, 2005 @12:22AM
from the zero-tolerance dept.
Misanthrope writes: The recent allegations of Mars harboring a frozen underground sea has prompted new speculation of illegal file trading on Mars. “What else is the planet hiding?” asked Neil Turkewitz, the RIAA international executive vice president. “Where there is the potential for life, there is the potential for piracy.” When asked to name a Martian filesharing site, Turkewitz declined, citing a policy on pending cases.
“The RIAA is continuing its international public relations campaign against a very odd target,” said Princeton Professor Edward Felton, a noted critic of law and technology. “They’ve interpreted Russian overtures against Allofmp3.com before the US-Russian summit as a precedent for interplanetary enforcement.”
NASA officials cautioned against confusing Mars with the similar-sounding planet Mongo and its infamous despot and P2P network hobbyist, Ming The Merciless.
Martian officials were unavailable for comment.