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RIAA Strikes Again: Master Blaster!

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Daniel Andrlik
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Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. By day he manages product teams. The rest of the time he is a podcast host and producer, writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, and a programmer.

“Can’t you see? He has the mind of a child!”

Or rather, the RIAA does.

Seriously, this is just getting ridiculous. The RIAA has done it again, and yes, they made bunny cry. Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing explains this very well in his brief commentary, and I’m too frustrated right now to add anything substantial to it that does not consist of naughty words.

Boing Boing: RIAA shuts down machinima site

EDIT: It turns out that the letter to RPG films was a forged document. You can read Cory Doctorow’s follow-up here.

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