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RIAA Secret Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Tue Oct 9 20:45:44 2001
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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:19:51 -0400
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:24:40 -0700
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From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: RIAA Secret Meeting
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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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