RSSEx-RIAA Chiefs Start Anti-Piracy Firm
By Ed Oswald | Published February 2, 2006, 1:06 PM
Two former RIAA leaders, Jay Berman and Hilary Rosen, announced Thursday that they were partnering to form an anti-piracy consulting agency. The two plan to focus on intellectual property protection, digital media technology, international trade issues and anti-piracy strategies.
Rosen is probably most well known for her stint as the chief of the RIAA during the height of the Napster battle, while Berman, also once chief of the RIAA, headed the IFPI during that same time. The combined effort would be called Berman Rosen Global Strategies, but the two said that it would act as a consultancy rather than a lobbying firm.
"Digital delivery and acquisition of entertainment is changing with lightening speed and so is the need to protect and promote the creative expressions that provide this entertainment," Berman said. "We can help guide businesses in the entertainment space on a variety of important issues such as licensing, public policy and anti-piracy tactics, both in the U.S. and internationally."
The two have developed a set of criteria with the help of economist Barry Massarsky that would help business and investors predict the impact of piracy on both acquisitions and investments where intellectual property is an issue.
"We have a unique combination of knowledge and experience," said Rosen.
Rosen had stayed largely out of the spotlight for the last two years after retiring from the RIAA, save for a few public comments including a May Web log post on the Huffington Post pleading with Steve Jobs to open up the iPod.
Berman has spent the last six years working with European and Latin American governments on piracy and market access issues on behalf of the international recording industry.
Why would you hire 2 people that were heads of an industry where piracy is more rampant than anywhere else and they have bee completely and utterly useless at stopping it. These 2 have been part of the worst management and decision making in terms of anti-piracy that history has probably ever seen and they want people to pay them money to advise them on anti-piracy measures??? aaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! I really need to get my hands on some of that RIAA weed! Holy sh!t!
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ummmmm:-P RIAA weeeeeeed, ummmmm:-) i can almost smell it, I WANT SOME! fed-ex me a few pounds.
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Stronger the darkside does grow
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"Stronger the darkside does grow"
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Don't despair ! The RIAA is -as we speak- marshalling the forces of Good and Light against the Evil Empire of File-Sharing.
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I can't wait till they release the first beta of their rootkit
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"I can't wait till they release the first beta of their rootkit"
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Good man !
It's the patriotic duty of ~every~ American to install an anti-piracy rootkit on their personal computer.
As the President of Sony recently pointed out: Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, why then should they object to one on their PC ?
Americans need to rally around the flag ! Digital piracy is thinly-guised Communism.
To paraphrase Patrick Henry: "Give me a rootkit, or give me death !".
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"I have no respect for the RIAA, therefore I have no respect for them"
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Does this guy work for the Department of Redundancy Department ?
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I have no respect for the RIAA, therefore I have no respect for them.
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Who will be their first customer?
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They ought to use a bullseye for their logo; they'll have one painted on their front door anyway... I guess Target would probably sue THEM though...
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dead to them ;o
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We the pirates demand that copyrights and dmr are put to rest, or we will continue terrorizing the creators by copying* (not to ce confused with stealing**) their work.
** S: (v) steal (take without the owner's consent) "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
* S: (v) replicate, copy (reproduce or make an exact copy of) "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information"
MAKES YOU THINK
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haha very nicely done.
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It would seem that the forces in opposition to digital theft are multiplying.
We need ~more~ of the same:
Neighborhood block watches dedicated to patrolling streets and homes. Anybody overhears music playing ...demand that the person prove they paid for it !
Anyone caught without a receipt for their music to be immediately taken to secret prisons in Eastern Europe for "harsh interrogation techniques".
We got to nip this in the bud. File sharers are digital terrorists, and should be held indefinitely without trial or access to lawyers.
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Aaaarrrgghhhh....
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aye!
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