Rosen Believes RIAA is Wrong about P2P Lawsuits

Newer Guy writes "Former RIAA head Hilary Rosen now believes that the RIAA is wrong by pursuing their lawsuits of individuals for using P2P programs. In a blog post, she writes that she believes the lawsuits have 'outlived their usefulness' and states that the content providers really need to come up with their own download systems. She also is down on DRM, calling Apple's DRM 'a pain.'"

Comments

Okay, fess up

[Foerstner]

...which one of you hacked Hillary Rosen's blog...?

Re:Okay, fess up

[Crazyscottie]

"All your blog are belong to us!" --The EFF

Re:Have You Ever Noticed?

[hende_jman]

Yes, I think Hillary may have noticed that too:

In any event, it is easy to sit back and just comment. And it is usually pretty easy to listen to those comments.

Please...

[l3prador]

Futhermore, she adds, "You guys are right, ok? So will someone please be my friend?"

Re:Dear Hilary

[mugnyte]

  Au contraire, my friend. A bunch of /.er's have much more sway to the political tide than Hillary Rosen. All they have to do is vote. (Oh, and get into the Diebold machines)

This only proves...

[SeaFox]

That the RIAA/MPAA is actually a dangerous cult completely out of touch with reality!

Look, this woman has escaped and now the effects of their brainwashing are starting to wear off.

Re:Have You Ever Noticed?

[Overly Critical Guy]

I think Rosen's position is interesting considering that even Slashdot back in 2000 was very adamant that the RIAA should go after infringers (mostly because everyone thought it couldn't be done, so it was a safe position to take).

As for Apple's DRM being "a pain," I don't know how she could possibly think that. I've never even hit a limitation with it, and I forget it's there. It's the most liberal DRM in existence.

Re:Have You Ever Noticed?

[PastaLover]

We slashdotters are no different. We're fanatical about being anti-fanatical :)

Slashdotters not fanatical? You must be new here...

Re:Have You Ever Noticed?

[squiggleslash]

I find that keeping the MP3 bitrate up rediculously high (say 320kbps) helps quite a lot

Well, obviously, but it still causes a certain amount of artifacts. For example, the "rid" part of the word "ridiculous" is often so distorted it sounds like the word "red", resulting in millions of people thinking the word is spelt "rediculous" rather than "ridiculous".

If only we all used Ogg Vorbis, at 1440kbps, using a 32 bit/88kHz PCM source, we wouldn't have these "rediculous" artifacts. Still, when you consider people still use regular plastic volume controls, rather than proper wooden ones, and people keep letting speaker cable lie on the ground rather than using pillars to support it a few inches above, not to mention the refusal of the average, Kenwood or Sony buying "consumer" to use proper filtered AC carried using gold plated screened power cables, it's not surprising most people can't tell the difference between a 128kbps AAC and a CD.

Re:The most liberal DRM...

[Joe Enduser]

I have kind of the same problem over here. The mp3's that I created on my Linux system all seem to be DRM'd with this ogg thing. Anyone has a clue how to remove this DRM so that I can play ogg files on a regular player?