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March 15, 2002 Suddenly, RIAA Chief Wants Government Intervention In her usual two-faced approach, RIAA chief Hilary Rosen is sobbing to the US Senate about digital piracy. According to this story, Rosen stated, "This hearing is an important opportunity to again demonstrate that rampant digital piracy is the serious threat to consumers, artists and record companies, and promising countermeasures have so far been given short shrift by the technology industry." Digital piracy is a threat to consumers and artists??? Why is "digital piracy" (also known as free marketing for the music industry) a threat to consumers? Because it gives the music fan an option to sample lousy major label music prior to wasting their money on it? Why is it a threat to artists? Because it gives them a powerful worldwide forum to market their product? As for Rosen's comment about piracy being a threat to record companies, who cares? This RIAA fool is asking the US Government for assistance on anti-piracy issues because the labels are too incompetent to develop an effective safeguard against music piracy. Several major labels have flushed an enormous amount of money down the toilet in their unsuccessful attempts to develop anti-piracy technology such as CD copy protection. And now Ms. Hilary wants the US Government to bail out these losers. Yeah right! Now let's explain why Rosen is your quintessential hypocritical two-face. Isn't Rosen the same person who stated recently that the RIAA did not want the US Government interfering in the music industry? In August of 2001, Representative Rick Boucher, D-Virginia proposed the Music Online Competition Act (MOCA), which would update copyright law to make it easier for online music services to conduct business without running afoul of the major music labels. Even more importantly, it would bring competition back to the music business and prevent the RIAA from creating a monopoly in music distribution. In response to the MOCA Act, Hilary The Two Face stated, "The bill substitutes government regulation for the marketplace. This is not only wrong, it is also inconsistent with the strongly held views of experts and the private sector that government regulation of the Internet would be a disastrous mistake. "Many in the industry will fight this bill aggressively because we know that the marketplace is already moving in the right direction and that consumers will be served well by both the current and coming plans for online music services." You can read her entire BS statement here on the RIAA site. So let's see, Hilary The Two Face wants the government to interfere with online music piracy issues, however, she does not want the government getting involved in issues such as licensing of online music services. According to the Two Face, the marketplace is not working effectively in regards to piracy issues, however, it is working fine in regards to online music services. What'll it be Hilary? Does the RIAA want government regulation or doesn't it? Ever heard of the saying, "you can't have your cake and eat it too?" Since Hilary literally looks
like she has been having more than her share of cake recently,
maybe it is about time for both her and her label buddies to
go on a diet. Sphinx |
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