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Hilary Rosen: Killing Napster didn't bring market control

Cory Doctorow posts over on Boing Boing, regarding the expectation that the Grokster case will kill P2P file swapping:

Hilary Rosen -- ex CEO of the RIAA -- has an editorial on Grokster in which she cautions her ex-colleagues in the music industry that shutting down P2P services doesn't get rid of P2P, nor does it make your customers happy to come back into your grip:

But knowing we were right legally really still isn't the same thing as being right in the real world. We had that euphoria with the first Napster decision. I hope my former colleagues remember that. The result was lots of back and forth and leverage hunting on both sides and continued litigation and then a great service shut down to make room for less great services. And more legal victories didn't bring more more market control no matter how many times it was hoped it would.

Link (Thanks, Jim!)

posted by Fergie @ 6/27/2005 12:19:00 PM