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September 07, 2004
RIAA Lobbyist: DRM 'up or INDUCE is gonna getcha (Jason Schultz)
So why do we allow scum like this to dictate innovation? Why do we allow them to dictate what we can do with content or CDs or other things that WE PURCHASE. We PAID these people to use these things.
And now they are forcing innovators who create LEGAL products that we want to buy, to kowtow to their demands or they will get the politicians who are already in their back pockets, to write bad laws to force them to comply. And we just sit back and take it.
It's time we closely examine the records of these politicians who vote for this anti-consumer, anti-innovation, anti-American stuff and vote their sorry butts out of office forthwith.
On the heels of Fritz Attaway's antagonistic comments about P2P the other week, there was an interesting Q&A in CNET last week with Mitch Glazier, head DC lobbyist for the RIAA. I found this exchange particularly illuminating:
There has been speculation that the original Induce Act could make Apple Computer liable for selling like the iPod. Could it?No.
Why not?
The original Induce Act focused on the totality of the circumstances. There's no way that a company that produces great digital rights management for a licensed product is ever going to be shown to want to profit from piracy.
In other words, the RIAA intends to use INDUCE as leverage to pressure companies into incorporating DRM. If you incorporate "great digital rights management for a licensed product", they won't sue. Leave out the DRM, however, and well.. you enter the marketplace at your own risk.
Also, it appears that Mitch is confusing his Apple products. Apple's iTunes Music Store does put DRM on each of its songs, but the iPod can handle an unlimited number of DRM-free MP3 files without any restrictions. Apple could have designed the iPod to only handle DRM-protected content, but it didn't. Does the fact that it enforces DRM rules for some songs but not for others still mean it can't INDUCE?
[Copyfight]Posted by mikki at September 7, 2004 07:50 PM
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