THE RIAA SEEMS TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE TRUTH: But this one is a doozy:

But the RIAA seems to be having a few problems with the facts itself.

Yesterday it issued a press release announcing a piracy bust in New York which unearthed 421 CD-R burners.

Only there weren’t 421 burners, but “the equivalent of 421 burners.”

In fact, there were just 156. How did the RIAA account for this discrepancy?

“There were only 156 actual burners, but some run at very high speeds: some as high as 40x. This is well above the average speed,” was the official line yesterday.

I guess that means that I own 70 cars. That’s because my car, with an alleged top speed of 140 miles per hour, is seventy times as fast as the first automobile, a steam-powered contraption that had a top speed of 2 miles per hour!

This is pathetic. The story also raises another question: why is the Secret Service — supposedly busy fighting terror, etc. — acting as hired thugs on behalf of the recording industry? Then again, the Secret Service isn’t covering itself with glory there, either.