RIAA is the 21st Century's Mafia

According to historian Paolo Pezzino: "The mafia is a kind of organized crime being active not only in several illegal fields, but also tending to exercise sovereignty functions – normally belonging to public authorities – over a specific territory."- Wikipedia The RIAA spends a good portion of its time harassing U.S. citizens and businesses alike. It makes numerous false accusations and then proclaims them publicly. Both harassment and slander are against the law, so that takes care of the first part of the statement. So when harassment and slander aren't enough, the next step the RIAA tries is "to make them an offer they can't refuse". This is usually a one time offer to pay a inflated price per song, and in exchange the RIAA will not press criminal charges. You may have noticed my reference to "The Godfather" but don't let that distract you from the RIAA's own version of the Mafia's "Insurance Policy".

So, is that it? No, I'll stick to three points today. The first similarity was that both the Mafia and the RIAA preform acts outside the law. The second is that both have a bully attitude with a better not refuse our "Insurance Policy" offer. And the third point finishes up the quote from Paolo Pezzino with the RIAA taking the law into their own hands and trying to do the prosecution job of law enforcement. All of these similarities could be elaborated on, and many more brought up, but I think my point has been made. My question is how long will this behavior be tolerated? I'm sure someone somewhere in the RIAA intended well, but their entire battle plan failed when they adopted the shoot first ask questions later method. This has led to numerous false accusations, and thousands of ISP's, universities, businesses, and citizens that have to take time and resources to either assist with or repute RIAA accusations with little or no compensation in nearly all cases. Why should anyone other than the RIAA have to foot their bills as they go on their Mafia like crusade?

I am nowhere near the first to make these accusations of the RIAA's similarties to the Mafia, for further info please look up MAFIAA.