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Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post

Posted by kdawson on from the paging-mister-lessig dept.

The Recording Industry of America's favorite courtroom lawyer, Tom Perrelli, who has sued individual file swappers in multiple federal courts, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the third in line at the Justice Department. CNet's Declan McCullagh explores the background of the man who won the RIAA's lucrative business for his DC law firm: "An article on his law firm's Web site says that Perrelli represented SoundExchange before the Copyright Royalty Board — and obtained a 250 percent increase in the royalty rate for music played over the Internet by companies like AOL and Yahoo," not to mention Pandora and Radio Paradise. NewYorkCountryLawyer adds, "Certainly this does not bode well for CowboyNeal's being appointed Copyright Czar."

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  1. Quick! by michaelhood · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Everyone start defending this decision.

    It sickens me how blinded people are by partisan politics.

    1. Re:Quick! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      States' rights are there for a reason.

      Yeah, to bring down black people. Face it, it was true during the Civil War, it's true now...

    2. Re:Quick! by commodore64_love · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Just wait.

      In the year 2012 people will be talking about how Obama let them down.

      In the year 2016, there will be a backlash and people will be thrilled to see Obama leave.

      --
      "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
    3. Re:Quick! by Repossessed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Bullshit. The southern states seceded because they wanted to keep their slaves. Oh, the propaganda was all about states rights and other bullshit, but whatever Joe the blacksmith felt, the people behind it wanted slaves. The north's motives aren't relevant, the south is the one that seceded. Hell, the south started the war by attacking a Union base. It's the south's motives that matter, and that was slaves.

      --
      Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite (TM)
  2. I guess by DigDuality · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This was all that "change" those lifer democrats who hailed him as the 2nd Coming were talking about.

  3. CHANGE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A vote for Obama is a vot for change.
    Yea, right. I can't wait.

  4. Not to worry... by R2.0 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Like the tax collectors in the New Testament, one touch by the Messiah and he will repent his evil ways and thereon lead a life of righteousness.

    (Yes, it's flamebait. Burn, Baby, BURN!)

    --
    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  5. Yay! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Change!

  6. So this is where all the Republicans and Paulites by californication · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So this is where all the Republicans and Paulites on Slashdot hang out!

  7. Re:Figures by Zorque · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, the guy who started a war on highly suspect grounds and ran the economy into the toilet is the exact same as the guy who hires a lawyer who is most likely highly qualified (otherwise, why would the RIAA be using him?).

  8. Re:Hey, Libertarians! by neomunk · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm not usually this pedantic, but pointing out for whom the "bell tolls" is rather moot. The poem points out that if the bell is tolling, it is tooling for YOU, due to the interconnectedness of humanity.

    Stop trying to use it to sound like a bad-assed toughguy, it falls flat on people educated beyond Spike's Manswers or Metallica albums.