A post over at BoingBoing turned me on to the mother of all ironies : Hilary Rosen of the RIAA complaining about DRM. Seems she can't get her iPod to play nice with other music services. Ah, when she wants to do something with her music and someone else is doing the constraining, suddenly it's boo-hoo wah-wah me-me.
After lobbying the government to strip consumers of all rights to the media they purchase, and to criminalize even fair use of that media, it boggles the mind that she would be whining about this. The DMCA, which she helped usher in, made it illegal to create a device which could be used to freely pipe music around, which is exactly what she's complaining about not being able to do with her iPod. Locking out competitors is just a corollary - the business case for draconian music control is one of her own construction. If she hadn't helped kill the culture of mobile music, this wouldn't be an issue in this generation of portable music players.
The question is: is she actually this hypocritical? Or is she just too dim to understand that she is personally responsible, perhaps moreso than any other human on the face of the planet, for the frustrations she's having with this new era of complete music lockdown?
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