Dangerously Low Prices
Mike Smith
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Police raided the Krazy Kat record store this week in the culmination of a five month investigation of the business. Krazy Kat was allegedly copying music onto CDs and then selling them at a fraction of the original price.
Selling more then seven pirated CDs is a fourth-degree felony.
Local reporters and cameramen in attendance and were able to capture this rare poetic utterance from a surprised city employee. "When I came here, I came to go to the bathroom. And then all of a sudden, they came in here and I'm like, 'Holy (guess which expletive went here), what's going on here?"
Fascinating.
Customers were allowed to leave because, interestingly enough, it is not against the law to buy a pirated CD. Only to sell them. I guess as long as you're giving your money to someone, the RIAA is happy?
Nobody was arrested or charged in the raid, police are planning on filing charges after they sort through all of the seized items. Apparently the store has been warned in the past to stop copying CDs.
As much as I hate the RIAA I think they might be in the right here. This is the kind of thing they should prosecute. A store profiting off of CDs without giving any money to the artists. Plus, they had been warned before. This is a whole different league than some teenager downloading the new Paris Hilton album.
My heart goes out to the cop that has to listen to/index that for evidence.
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Reader Comments (1)
when the recording industry went to cd's, it was probably(guessing) costing them $2,50 for a 12" lp, they sold for $7.98.
CD's cost them $.85 to make and they started charging $15.95 and have been going down since..
It's like deja Vu all over again (Thanks Yogi)... this administration is allowing legalized armed robbery at the gas station everyday.
The rcording industry thought nopbody would catch on ...so when people capitalize on their own greed (the recording industry) and turned it around , whalla.