Re: [dvd-discuss] RIAA Secret Meeting

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis(at)videotron.ca>]

ummmmmm wasnt this in the Register?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22087.html

not very anonymous...not sure how much I believe it... but its up there in
print.

John Young wrote:

> Anonymous reports on a secret meeting of RIAA:
>
>    http://cryptome.org/riaa-secret.htm
>
> Excerpt:
>
> "On Thursday October 4 there was a closed-door RIAA meeting at the
> Ritz-Carlton, which was 'a direction setting' meeting. The individuals of
> note attending were:
>
>   Hillary Rosen - RIAA Chief
>   Steve Heckler - Sony Music
>   Strauss Zelnick - BMG
>   Edgar Bronfman - Universal
>   Gerald Levin - AOL Time-Warner
>   Ken Berry - EMI
>   Leonardo Chiariaglione - SDMI Chair (Leaving Soon)
>   Francis Jones - Codex Data Systems
>   Fritz Hollings - Senator
>   Ted Stevens - Senator
>   Michael Eisner - Disney CEO
>   Jack Valenti - President, MPAA
>   Andy Grove - Intel CEO
>   Lou Gerstner - IBM
>   Yoishi Morishita - CEO Matsushita
>   Tsutomo Kawata - CEO Toshiba
>   Jay Berman - IFPI Chair
>   Paul England - Microsoft Advanced Cryptography research group
>
> One particularly disturbing fact is that Codex Data System's DIRT
> software is supposed to be restricted to law enforcement agencies,
> yet the RIAA, MPAA, and IFPI have all purchased it, and use it
> routinely to monitor servers which are suspected of infringing
> content, yet are password protected such as servers which
> require one to sign up for a password account like hotline servers
> that have no guest download."

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