RIAA Secret Meeting

[Donald ramsbottom]

I have read the full report, and it seems to me that:

"Once we stem piracy, we will be able to raise prices in order to regain
lost profits from piracy."

Amounts to a price fixing policy within a cartel, which I believe ( and I
may be wrong IANA[US]L) is a criminal offence in the US. Perhaps this info
should be sent to the DoJ.

This was pretty disturbing (and Ironic):

Disney's Eisner stated, "Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us
obtaining our objectives."

You can bet your bottom dollar (sic) that whenever such as these gather
together no good will come of it. The rank hypocrisy of the hardware
manufacturers is a bit steep, with Sony etc making copying devices and some
even have built in hacks to their equipment (DVD regional code hacks) and
still they participate in such as this. 

So they want to say who, what, why, when and where "their" software is
accessed
with little regard to the consumer. The fact that the consumer may have
paid through the nose several times for the software or may wish to access
the legimately purchased content in a particular way is irrelevant and they
are prepared to trample your basic human rights in the process of acheiving
their objectives of telling you how to use "their" product. 

In case you are in any doubt as to whether this has any crypto content,
this should dispel that:

 "The new generation of rogue file sharing applications have set a
disturbing precedent.  The encryption technology used is clearly aimed at
thwarting our anti-piracy operations.  We must go after the parties
involved, and force them to give up their encryption keys so our
anti-piracy operations can begin reporting those who infringe upon our
works to their internetservice providers"

Remember the MPAA have used strong arm tactics not only in the US, but here
in the UK on universities and individuals.



Donald Ramsbottom BA LLb (Hons) PGdip
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