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Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post
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."
Dig, they were not all "lifers", some of them were fooled by the NLP talk used in the elections.
(NLP= Neuro Linguistic Programming-- look at my sig for an example)
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
Mod parent up please. This is an interesting point, and little understood or reported.
- The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. -