Hilary Rosen Wants Interoperability
This is yet another reminder that your adversary, whoever or whatever he or she is, probably isn’t evil — just fulfilling his or her legal duty to be a zealous advocate for his or her client.
Hilary Rosen, former head lobbyist for the RIAA, has been saying some shockingly sensical things lately, now that she’s stepped down from that post. Here’s the latest. Rosen excoriates Steve Jobs for not supporting Microsoft DRM on the iPod while acknowledging that consumers’ ability to strip the DRM from files they buy can serve an important interoperability purpose.
She says she’s hoping Steve Jobs gets “Betamaxed”. Irony abounds.
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Joe Gratz comments on Hilary Rosen’s recent blog post on iPod/iTunes DRM (Hilary Rosen Wants Interoperability). For my take on Rosen’s comments, see, Copyfight, Hilary Rosen Laments Apple’s DRM Strategy. I have to disagree with Gratz here, however:T…
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