Dear registered user of the site What.cd,

We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the
site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for the
sole purpose of music piracy.

Pirating music is a criminal offence and we believe it should be obvious
to you that the results outweigh the benefits - hard working artists
won't be rewarded for their work and will stop producing music,
ultimately leading to a severely reduced selection of music both in the
shops and for download.

The RIAA had hoped that the disabling by the police of the large illegal
music site, Oink.cd, would stop a lot of people from engaging in piracy,
as they don't want to be seen as criminals. However, this appears to
not be the case, as two large new sites have sprung up in its place.

This email is the final warning to all of you who were members of
Oink.cd and are current members of What.cd. If we find you to be
committing any more criminal acts of piracy then we will have to press
charges against you, as representatives of the major record companies of
America.

Yours Faithfully,

The RIAA



WTF?

GTFOUT (get the fuck out of there)

Got served. Almost.

Can the RIAA prosecute you on behalf of labels that tolerate music piracy?

It's fake. Some asshole hacked what.cd and fucked with the site, and sent out fake emails.

Skronk wrote:It's fake. Some asshole hacked what.cd and fucked with the site, and sent out fake emails.

That was my guess, based on some of the awkward wording in a sentence or two.

There's nothing really the RIAA could do besides taking the site down completely.

Shit, why can't there be a smart phisher/hacker for once?

Pirating music is a criminal offence and we believe it should be obvious to you that the results outweigh the benefits - hard working artists won't be rewarded for their work and will stop producing music,
ultimately leading to a severely reduced selection of music both in the
shops and for download.

In other news, the Parents Music Resource Center has announced that downloading "just isn't a very nice thing to do." Threats of grounding and allowance cuts came from Tipper Gore, head of the 22-member committee, at a press conference earlier today.

The day the RIAA tries the "ask nicely" angle is the day the last record store in the country shuts down.

I just found out that What.cd got hacked and some teenager brat sent those fake emails. All is good now

I opened it, and read it...it said they were SUCKERS.