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Re: [dvd-discuss] RIAA Secret Meeting

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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