DNC/RIAA: WTF?

Via Boing Boing:

Today, Jenni Engestrom was named "Deputy CEO for Public Affairs," for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver -- but she is better known as the Director of Communications for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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The liberal blogosophere is united on many fronts -- not just disliking US foreign policy. We also hate the RIAA -- for suing our friends, for lobbying for laws that suspend due process rights of the accused (the RIAA's favorite law, the DMCA, was used by Diebold to suppress information about failures in its voting machines), and for demanding the right to "pretext" (commit wire fraud) in order to catch "pirates."

Worse still, the RIAA are part of the initiative to corrupt net neutrality, imposing centralized controls on the transmission of information across the network.

It has been Engestrom's job to sell these initiatives to the American public.

WTF?

Boing Boing has some action items, including contacting DNC funders and staffers.

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wow.

well……this certainly knocks my opinion of the DNC down a few notches.

…of ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the people they could have hired!


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Yeah dude

The RIAA/MPAA and the Democratic establishment are like this (—holdes up crossed fingers).

It’s a big part of the problem that the entertainment industry lobbies are the primary source of information for most politicians on issues of copyright, media technology, and (along with the telcos) the internet. Our representatives have been following a private narrative spun by these people for a long time. It’s a problem.