• arthurpizza@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The people who are stealing our movies and our television shows and operating piracy sites are not mom and pop operations,” says Charlie Rivkin, chief executive officer of the MPA, who adds that some of the operators also engage in drug trafficking, child pornography, prostitution and money laundering. “This is organized crime.”

    I like how they always have to fabricate a connection to organized crime. Trying to convince the reader that is not just copyright infringement.

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      9 months ago

      It’s projection.

      Hollywood was founded on IP theft of European filmmakers’ work and funded by various mobs, which then went on to lobby (bribe) politicians into changing certain regulations on gambling in AZ, et al, to pave the way for Vegas and the like.

      Fuck Hollywood with a rusty pineapple sideways.

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        There’s nothing more quintessentially American than pulling the ladder up behind you.