Re: [dvd-discuss] RIAA Secret Meeting

["John Zulauf" <johnzu(at)ia.nsc.com>]

you forgot the <irony> </irony> tags... 

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Joshua Stratton wrote:
> 
> What is everyone's fascination with the forbidden meeting of the Society
> of Evil? I'm sure they're no more threatening to us than Rotarians.
> 
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Dan Steinberg wrote:
> 
> > 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."
> >
> > --
> > Dan Steinberg
> >
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