p2pnet.net Opinion:- At the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show, Hewlett-Packard Corp announced that it will "aggressively" enforce digital-rights-management. But now only two months later, HP is announcing a "new invention" to "burn a silk screen-like, high-contrast label on the upper side of CD or DVD media bearing a special coating."

Carly Fiorina has the power to build an ongoing relationship into the PCs she sells to include an RIAA endorsed central server Audible Magic filtering system that blocks unauthorized copies.

But she hasn’t.

Why not? She has high-powered friends like Jimmy Iovine, Sheryl Crow, The Edge and Ben Affleck.

If Audible Magic is so magical and good enough for Gnutella and NY Times puff pieces why isn’t it good enough for Carly?

Like Steve Jobs (who hoodwinked the music biz with his iTunes file sharing program that, for example, now enables music sharing across the entire Austin, Texas wireless network), Fiorina talks the talk while the heir apparents to coked-out bozos like Walter Yetnikoff fumble away the future through arrogance and intentional ignorance.

No wonder Dr. ‘root canal’ Oppenheim punted. The RIAA now sounds like Baghdad Bob: last year’s 7% drop in shipments was actually an ‘improvement’ because it was less of a plunge from the year before.

As The Donald would say to anyone in that scenario, "You’re fired!"

John Parres - founder of Click the Vote.

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