RIAA lawyer in top Obama government job
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Everyone in the P2P community is hoping for a New Beginning with Barrack Obama as America’s new president.
They’re hoping he’ll redress the grievous wrongs perpetrated by the entertainment industries on their customers, and help bring about a climate of trust instead of fear.
They’re also hoping the appointment of Tom Perrelli, managing partner at Jenner & Block, one of the RIAA’s favourite law firms, and a former employer of Matt ‘The Dentist‘ Oppenheim, doesn’t signal a continuation of the bad old ways, and a sop to the Big 4 record labels, Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US).
Perrelli, “regularly represents the recording industry [tread RIAA] in cutting-edge intellectual property, technology, and anti-piracy litigation,” says his bio.
He’s also worked for the RIAA in other lawsuits against individual file sharers, says CNET News.
“One filed in Michigan accuses a university student of distributing “hundreds of sound recordings over his system without the authorization of the copyright owners.” A lawsuit against a Princeton University student makes similar arguments; Perrelli and his colleagues also tried to force Charter Communications to give up the names of 93 file-trading subscribers.
Perrelli has been named deputy assistant attorney general
Definitely stay tuned.
CNET News – Obama picks RIAA’s favorite lawyer for a top Justice post, January 6, 2009
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Ask Obama about this nomination on change.gov site. Many would be interested to know why.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:56 am
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-prison-project-launches-book-your-cell-now-090106/
Here is a tip for you, Jon.
January 7th, 2009 at 9:23 am
^^Yup. I had a long Reader’s Write from the project’s Dimitri Johnson, which I”ll be posting as a story later.
Cheers!
January 7th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Oily lookin barsteward ain’t he.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Lawyers (and ) switch positions all the time, according who is paying them. Basically they are souless employees who are in the profession only to make money. I would not be surprised if this lawyer switches position or has no say in matters related to the music industry or copyright.
January 7th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
@ ‘Here is a tip for you, Jon.’
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18095
Cheers!
January 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
“change” = no change
The President of the Unites States is only one man and one small piece of a much larger system. Because of that, Obama is doing everything in his power to keep the political conservatives content. It shouldn’t be surprising to people.