RIAA Makes Deal, Sends Police

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RIAA Makes Deal, Sends Police

Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:18:54 AM #34303 Perm Link

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Here's how it works. Make a deal with the RIAA to distribute mix tapes... <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/magazine/18djdrama.t.html">The RIAA then sends SWAT teams and other law enforcement to raid your studio and arrest you</a>. Sounds fair, no?

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Late in the afternoon of Jan. 16, a SWAT team from the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, backed up by officers from the Clayton County Sheriff's Office and the local police department, along with a few drug-sniffing dogs, burst into a unmarked recording studio on a short, quiet street in an industrial neighborhood near the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The officers entered with their guns drawn; the local police chief said later that they were "prepared for the worst." They had come to serve a warrant for the arrest of the studio’s owners on the grounds that they had violated the state's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO, a charge often used to lock up people who make a business of selling drugs or breaking people’s arms to extort money. The officers confiscated recording equipment, cars, computers and bank statements along with more than 25,000 music CDs. Two of the three owners of the studio, Tyree Simmons, who is 28, and Donald Cannon, who is 27, were arrested and held overnight in the Fulton County jail. Eight employees, mostly interns from local colleges, were briefly detained as well.

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Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:08:13 AM #34325 Perm Link

I assume that the charges involved distributing pirated CDs?

I can't seem to find that detail from the article above, although I'm still on my first coffee this morning.

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