Well, I suppose we should have expected this, but it's still disgusting to actually see it come to light. In its ever-increasingly desperate efforts to convince the world that a person who downloads a copy of a copyrighted song is the worst kind of criminal in existence, the idiots at the RIAA have concocted a feature-length film (!) aimed at law enforcement agents, suggesting that intensifying prosecution of "pirates" will lead them to more "tantalizing" targets, like drug dealers, thieves, and terrorists. Though they didn't mention the term "Nazi" directly, did the RIAA just Godwin itself out of this argument? They've obviously made two bad mistakes here: 1. By suggesting that following the "antics" of a music pirate, law enforcement might find evidence of other crimes, like drug dealing, terrorism, etc., haven't they just admitted that "stealing music electronically" lands *really low* on the priority list for reasonable law enforcement efforts? 2. They've just implied that every person who has ever downloaded a piece of music without tithing to the music industry is a *terrorist.* It's a cheap shot, and it's also pretty shitty. Methinks even more "everyday people" will see this steaming pile of bullshit for what it's worth, even more so than the eyebrows that get raised whenever the RIAA sues a child or a grandparent. Read some other opinions on the matter so you don't just think I'm a wingnut :) Also, it shouldn't surprise anybody at all that the Pirate Bay has already, well, pirated a copy of this video from the RIAA. [Grab your copy here.](http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4034469/RIAA_Training_Video__Prosecution_of_Music_Piracy) * A [Wired article](http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/02/riaa-training-v.html) on the subject. * [Slashdot.org covers the issue](http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/20/2317202&from=rss).