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CEO of RIAA Speaks at P2P Conference
Sarcasmo writes: "Hillary Rosen, CEO of the RIAA ? , spoke at length (PDF of Speech) yesterday, during the 'O'Reilly Peer to Peer and Web Services conference'. " Update: 11/08 02:15 GMT by H : Yeah, I removed the Rosen text. Sorry.
http://www.lesbiannews.com/Pages/feature/excerpt/r osen.html
I wonder if Hillary was able to keep a straigh face during her speech!
Of course she could. Think about all of the Linux/BSD/Windows/Macintosh/BeOS zealots. They can spew absolute unfounded BS all day and keep a straight face. All you have to do is believe in what you are saying. I imagine that Hillary really believes that sharing music is "piracy". I'm sure if she wonders how we (being those that are on the complete oposite side of the fence) can state that "information wants to be free" with a straigh face. It's all a matter of perception.
They're just doing their own version of what the Jesuits do... get your people into as many key positions as you can, then get them to violate the trust inherent in their respective offices.
Perhaps we should ask them to rename themselves to the Humanist Rights Campaign?
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Yes, it's true that Hilary Rosen is a woman and a lesbian. Please don't make fun of her just because of that. Make fun of her because she is part of an evil, greedy corporation called the RIAA. It won't help matters if gender-specific and sexual-orientation-specific comments from this site make the headlines at other news sites instead of the truly meaningful and insightful comments.