[Groop] Motor City Con Report

[Necro]

They have been busting Flea Markets in RI and Mass the last few months. Must 
be cracking down.

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elie A. Harriett" <misterelie at earthlink.net>
To: "'The Groop (The Groop)'" <groop at groo.com>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Groop] Motor City Con Report


> Yes, it is true, Motor City Comic Con got busted very publicly today for
> piracy by the MPAA.  Some of you are probably right now going, "huh?"
> While others of you are probably saying, "it's about time!"  Someone
> must have been upset about paying twenty five bucks for a grainy DVD
> copy of deleted Star Wars scenes.
>
> Really, I don't know how any of you feel about these guys, but I always
> equated the people selling bootlegged videos/DVDs at cons to the press
> in the 1910's who labelled the Titanic as "unsinkable."  They post
> disclaimers on their labels that say they "believe" what they're selling
> is public domain and are treating their wares as such. A couple of years
> ago, the Spider-Man 2 DVD that had that label on it was showing in the
> theatre two blocks down the street.
>
> They made themselves a huge target and the MPAA couldn't resist.  I
> wonder if they'll be going after any other cons this year (San Diego,
> anyone?)
> Elie
>
> Janet Harriett wrote:
>
>>Maybe Sergio was right to spend the weekend in Oakland after all.  As we
>>got to the last aisle of our preliminary walk-through, we found
>>ourselves in the middle of a full on police raid.  The local and state
>>police, with some help from gents in red "MPAA Anti-Piracy Task Force"
>>jackets, hauled off all the vendors selling pirated videos.  Every
>>single one of them.  In every aisle, there was at least one booth draped
>>in black tarp with a uniformed, armed police officer standing guard over
>>vendors who, at best, looked like this was not one of their better
>>days.  Reports are that at least a few were led out of the convention
>>center in handcuffs.
>>
>>I was wearing my Groo and Rufferto shirt, and one vendor, who was not
>>arrested as he sells MP3 disks of content clearly in the public domain,
>>made a mulch joke when he saw me.
>>
>>Janet
>>
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