RIAA’s Sherman ’simply musing’ on spyware
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- “Filters can be put in the applications for example. You know, one could have a filter on the end user’s computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from … encryption because if you want to hear it, you’d have to decrypt it, and at that point the filter could work.”
The statement, recorded for posterity in a video (see below), was made by RIAA sophist-in-chief Cary ‘Tough Love‘ Sherman during a recent State of the Net Conference put on by the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus.
However, an unnamed RIAA spokesperson who attended Sherman’s panel discussion told Ars Technica Sherman was, “simply musing in response to a question that required it. He was not proposing or suggesting anything specific but speaking in the abstract about a few general ideas.”
It’s now Standard Operating Procedure for people working for, and with, the RIAA and brother organisation , Hollywood’s MPAA, to make false statements or issue grossly inaccurate statistics they know will be picked up by the ever-faithful lamescream corporate media and repeated as though they came from reliable sources.
The statements and/or statistics can later be discarded as “mistakes”. But by that time, damage has been done.
Meanwhile, referring to the same video, “RIAA boss Cary Sherman is in a tough spot,” says Israel Mirsky in Media with Shelly Palmer, going on >>>
He heads a trade organization whose business model evolved to solve the problems of a world in which distribution was difficult, a world in which the big music labels were actually needed in order to get consumers the music that they wanted. That world is now gone, and Cary is working as hard as he can to make it clear to everyone that the companies of the RIAA are out of their element, that they do not understand the technologies driving the change in their business model and so they are doomed to endlessly attempt to stuff the internet genie back into its bottle. There is simply no room in the new, democratized production-distribution paradigm for players whose businesses depend on solving a problem that no longer exists.
Sherman’s response, “is so poorly thought out I’m not at all sure he knew what he was going to say before it came out of his mouth,” says Mirksy.
“At one point, struggling for a reason that consumers might pollute their machines with software that would cripple them and expose their owners to litigation, Cary suggests bundling it with antivirus software. Yeah – I know lots of antivirus companies with marketshare who would just _love_ to offer that to their customers.”
Stay tuned.
Also See:
RIAA sophist-in-chief – Copying and spyware are OK: RIAA, February 7, 2008
Tough Love – RIAA lawsuits are ‘tough love’, October 18, 2007
State of the Net – Copying and spyware are OK: RIAA, February 7, 2008
Ars Technica – RIAA president “simply musing” about filters on your PC, February 8, 2008
false statements – RIAA ‘legal CD copying’ row gathers steam, January 10, 2008
grossly inaccurate statistics – Huge Hollywood mistake in student download stats, January 23, 2008
Media with Shelly Palmer – RIAA chief encourages consumers, telecoms to shoot themselves in the face, February 8, 2008
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February 9th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I can think of a few questions I’d put to that vulture…
And he needs to get his head firmly out of his ass on the ‘if people realise something’s illegal, they’ll stop doing it’. Umm, sorry Cary, no they won’t, especially when you’re the one saying it’s illegal for profit reasons.
February 10th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Sharman is good at speaking in the abstract. He farts out of his mouth and talks through his a$$ and hence, anything that comes out makes no sense. He ought to get a$$ filtered and taught the concept of reality.
February 11th, 2008 at 8:17 am
A loaded gun to his head and trigger pulled might be a good idea.
Heck, simply musing.