IP: "Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives" Eisner : Good Morning Silicon Valley Mon Oct 08 12:00:25 EDT 2001

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22087.html


> "Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives". 
> So said Disney chief Michael Eisner during 
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22087.html>an RIAA-hosted a 
> "secret meeting" held in Washington DC last week to discuss the 
> entertainment industry's ongoing assault against file-sharing technology 
> etc.. During the meeting RIAA CEO Hillary Rosen regaled an audience that 
> included Intel's Andy Grove; IBM's Lou Gerstner; and Jack Valenti, head of 
> the Motion Picture Ass. of America with tales of the Association's 
> forthcoming effort to destroy the "21st century piratical bazaar" that has 
> allegedly cut so deeply into the industry's revenue (see 
> "<http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/gmsv/archive01/morn10032001.htm>Avast, 
> ye scurvy curs!") Said Rosen "we are working with sound card manufacturers 
> to implement technology that will block the recording of watermarked 
> content in both digital and analogue form".



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