The Register: RIAA secret meeting memo (a retraction)

“The trouble with the Internet is that it’s just too
darn fast. Publish a story and it’s all around the world before
you’ve caught your breath. Or had a chance to change what you’d
incautiously posted prematurely. Which is certainly the case with
Monday’s ‘Music biz wants tougher DMCA, CPRM 2 to protect
copyright’ story.

We received an email from an alleged Recording Industry
Association of America staffer claiming that RIAA chief Hilary
Rosen has hosted a secret gathering of music and technology CEOs to
discuss ways they could come together to eliminate the illegal
duplication and distribution of copyright material over the
Internet.

Bowled over by authentic-sounding soundbites from Rosen and co.,
we wrote it up and posted the story. Alarm bells had rung over the
supplied list of attendees, but the story felt too right to be
bothered by such caveats.”

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