The Imps of File Sharing May Lose in Court, but They Are Winning in the Marketplace

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The Imps of File Sharing May Lose in Court, but They Are Winning in the Marketplace

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[Public Knowledge - Content] Not more than an hour after the Supreme Court ruled last week against a pair of file-sharing software companies, Hilary Rosen, the former head of the...

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[Blogs.siliconvalley.com] Good Morning Silicon Valley: Looks a little different from the ...: > Hilary, I grant that the concepts of a free market and competition may be alien concepts to you. The RIAA oligoply is known for abusing the market, embargoing P2P, co-opting government (successful) and judiciary (mostly a failure), fighting innovation, anti-competitive court convictions, and just outright lying and silliness.

[Blogcritics.org] Blogcritics.org: Hilary Rosen Gets Gone From RIAA: The news just keeps rocking the recording industry: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Chairman and CEO Hilary Rosen, announced today that she will leave the organization at the end of 2003. Rosen, who was named CEO in 1998 and has been with RIAA for 17 years has been the recording industry’s chief advocate and spokesperson during a time of unprecedented change in the music business.

[Corante.com] Hilary Rosen Laments Apple's DRM Strategy: Corante > Copyfight >: Regardless of whether or not Miss Rosen likes I-Tunes, the real point in all of this is the sheep in this country don't stand up when a court-granted right gets trampled on. Betamax gave us the right to use our legitimately purchased media in any way we see fit, short of selling copies of it.

[Digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com] File-Sharing Sells CDs (MP3 Newswire) - The Digital Music Weblog ...: Richard Menta, writing in MP3 Newswire, reasons that if file-sharing was to blame for annual drops in CD sales, then file-sharing must take the credit for last years rise in U.S. sales, especially since file-sharing itself became more popular during that period. And he hopes the Supreme Court is listening.

[Msl1.mit.edu] FurdLog: Frank Field's Weblog - rev.1: Overall, Steven Marks did a bang up job for the RIAA, making well-crafted arguments and maintaining a steady, calm and collected tone despite a few heated questions from one Copyright Office attorney who almost seemed to have it out for the RIAA. Overall, the RIAA took the position that present and future technological devices are not intended to deny consumers of their expectations, and Mark Belinsky chimed in by saying that future CDs (to be released as soon as November I think he said) would contain "two sessions" of data — one for playback in traditional audio devices (stereos), and one for playback in computers running Windows XP, which should meet consumer’s expectations while addressing the RIAA’s concerns about piracy.