"So here's the newest soldier in the other Bush-era war with no end in sight: the arbitrary and unseemly battle over music piracy. What began with Metallica calling out Napster (and the Recording Industry Association of America suing a 12-year-old for illegal downloading) has now led here, to a London-based organization of "Internet policing specialists" whose website claims to combat everything from libel to pornography. But the Sheriff has become most notorious for unusual efforts to prevent album leaks, which, until recently, mostly involved leaving ominous comments on personal blogs."
If the majors have the RIAA and the IFPI pressuring ISP's and blogger services directly to do their bidding for them, the indies have the "web sheriff". The Village Voice tells all. Make sure you take a look at the web sheriff's own web site and check out the 'Outlaws Gallery' which will tell you all about the things that you're doing on the web that the sheriff finds 'disturbing'. If it weren't real, this would have been a perfect Yes Men prank.
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Hey, aren't they using copyrighted images on their site?
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