Is Hilary Rosen a sign of things to come?

May 27, 2008 at 11:10 pm

We all love us some Huffpo. The #1 Technorati blog. I don’t even know if blog is the right term for this news site.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut (That’s a long but) they just hired a new political director. No, not a politician or journalist. They hired a former CEO of the RIAA. Hilary Rosen, whose time at the RIAA included:

The dismantling of the Napster and Audiogalaxy Internet file-trading services.

Passage of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Initiating the Grokster lawsuit on which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the record industry

Passage of the Performance Rights Act creating a public performance right for the first time for sound recordings

Passage of the Record Rental Act providing additional rental protection for sound recordings