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Granted, the LA Weekly article does seem somewhat slanted. But just to clarify my own position, I wasn't really saying the RIAA is a bunch of assholes because they were picking on this poor street vendor. It's because they have squads of people running around in jackets with RIAA stenciled on them acting like police (even though they're not identifying themselves as such) trying to confiscate allegedly pirated merchandise. Who signs the warrant when the RIAA does one of these raids?

I think it's a bit of a hyperbole to talk about the shitty auto-driving, ramen noodle-eating, health care-lacking artist who's sacrificing so dearly for his or her work. For one thing, that artist made a choice to forego a more lucrative career path in order to pursue their art, and hopefully, the hypothetical artist would make their art without the promise of mega-royalties. For another thing, I doubt this street vendor is selling bootlegs of Trumans Water or A Minor Forest. They probably are sticking to groups that are a little more in demand, who probably aren't going to be hurt by the difference in royalties that these street vendors are going to make. Although I'm having a hell of a time imagining Britney Spears driving to her next video shoot in a rusted out gremlin with ramen stains down the front of her little dress with a hacking cough that she can't afford the antibiotics to cure.

I see John Leguizamo is edging out P.H. and phst in the search. Good for him.