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The MPAA have really done it this time.

MPAA via Boing Boing - PIRATED DISCS, DVDS BECOMING “THE NEW DRUG ON THE STREET”

WASHINGTON — A fatal car chase on November 10 between a convicted felon in Virginia wanted by authorities on several criminal charges including cocaine possession yielded hundreds of pirated CDs and DVDs in the man’s trunk, giving rise to a new kind of traded drug, according to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Inc’s Dennis Supik.

“A lot of people we were arresting had drug conviction backgrounds. Actually, what they said was, ‘This is the new drug on the street,’” said Supik, an MPAA field investigator who assists local law enforcement in anti-piracy raids.

And of course as we know from the Gonzales show last week, “pirated media” (don’t use the P-word!) is not only the new “drug addiction” but also “terrorism.” Can the case for perception modelling, vilification and corporate racketeering be any clearer? And also, on a side note, it’s not as if they have solved the problems of actual drug trading (as brought in by the CIA) and terrorism (incited by US foreign policy). American lies, obfuscations and two-facedness.