It looks like the Entertainment Software Association wants to put a bit more crackdown in their crackdowns of copyright infringement with the addition of a former Recording Industry Association of America executive to their team.
Kenneth Doroshow will become the ESA's new general counsel next month. ESA's CEO Michael Gallagher says that "the computer and video game industry will be well-protected with Ken’s guidance."
The brag section of ESA's press release sounds a bit like a ramping up of efforts:
Doroshow served as Senior Vice President, Litigation and Legal Affairs for the RIAA, the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. As the head of the RIAA’s litigation department, he led efforts to protect the copyrighted works of recording artists and managed cutting-edge anti-piracy lawsuits against companies like LimeWire, Usenet.com and AllofMP3.com.
If there's anyone who can catch pirates, it's this guy. Before Doroshow worked for the RIAA, he served with the Department of Justice as Senior Counsel with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.
If I were the ESA, I'd want no connection to the RIAA or its practices. What do you think?
[Via GamePolitics]
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3:40 PM on 08.19.2008
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I haven't seen them do their job in ages.
Protect videogame developers rights? What's that gibberish you say?
TPHTDTJ
Teaching Parents How To Do Their Jobs
And fuck the ESA for wanting to be anything like them. I download my music illegally just because the RIAA is such a bunch of assholes.
How wonderful....
Well, at least it'll be fun watching the games industry reap the same rewards from this sort of behavior that the music industry has.
I think you mean the DTJOPFT: Doing The Jobs Of Parents For Them.
It will be news to most parents that they even have jobs.
Plus if they're interested in catching pirates then all they need to do is hire a ninja.
You are wrong. It will take but a single viking to take all of them down.
The RIAA once copied a video that was made for them after being asked NOT TO and that they would get more copies later.
There was a lawsuit and the video author wants nothing to do with em.
Doroshow no doubt had to go through all that.
So he knows.
When you say, "Don't copy that floppy" it doesn't exclude the one that says it. You can't be pirating either. Its only right.
I guess the ESA wants to make sure to lose it's remaining members. They're doing a remarkable job at destroying themselves.