I know that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – the enforcement arm of the recording industry and the folks responsible for sueing over 1800 individuals for allegedly copying illegal songs off of the internet (and as we’ve seen from recent news, many of these were probably innocent!).
I posted this article (http://www.digitalprosound.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=55781) about Gary Shapiro really telling it like it is. Here is the quote from the article:
“We are pleased to see the RIAA letter finally confirmed, as we have
long suspected, that no technical specification for an audio flag, or
in fact anything else, exists and that the RIAA has stayed away from
the copy-protection technical working group in part because it has
nothing to propose,” Shapiro said, “The letter also confirms that the
RIAA’s interest lies solely in preserving its existing ways of
business, with the hope that it can maximize profits by limiting
innovation and undermining long-standing consumer rights.”
It’s always been obvious how missguided the RIAA (and MPAA for that matter) are but it is getting increasingly easy to see it in the news.