RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen to Become CNBC Commentator

alen writes "According to a story by the New York Post the CEO of the RIAA is stepping down. She is going to be an anchor on CNBC. Maybe this is going to signal a change in the way record companies think about file sharing?"

Jeezus

[ObviousGuy]

It's like they are TRYING to piss me off.

And in other news...

[DoofusOfDeath]

CNBC will initiate a reverse class action suit against all of its viewers, for viewing its valuable television programs without paying.

Uh oh.

[Masque]

Guess this probably means an end to those late night CNBC BitTorrents. Sigh.

Actually, this is strategic.

[AMuse]

She's reportedly been paid big money by the news organization to act on her strategy for preventing TIVO users from pirating their news feeds..... by making people stop watching!

Re:Fat chance!

[Hogwash McFly]

Mary Bono's Raring to Run RIAA

That reminds me: I've got no U2 mp3s on my puter, better go get some off Kazaa.

Re:Oh great....

[bedouin]

What's next? Perhaps CNBC will hire David Duke to do commentary.

Didn't Foxnews already do that?

Re:What's the differerence

[ObviousGuy]

Someday naming your daughter Hillary will be as favorable as naming your son Adolph.

For some people of a certain political persuasion that someday has already come.

She better be damn good looking

[rinkjustice]

"They are looking for me to do the larger picture on some of the content convergence and media consolidation issues and know that I have a point of view on many issues as a longtime advocate," she wrote in the e-mail.

Yeah, and her opinions, as before, will be wrong, wrong, WRONG!

(Who was the liar who told Hilary the public wants to hear more of her rants anyway?)

Top 10 New Career Moves:

[Sophrosyne]

10. Mud-wrestle lesbians in Japan.
9. Box Lesbians in Japan.
8. Become a "consultant".
7. Start Rosen.com, publish a super duper blog and live off ad revenue.
6. Join Kathy-Lee Gifford on her music tour.
5. Write a book!
4. Star in Playboy's "Women of the Internet" issue.
3. Go into rehab.
2. Get married to Ted Turner- make lotsa babies!
1. Get a job with those scumbags at CNBC....

Yo yo yo yo open source ganstas

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets make 50 cent the official rapper of the /. movement

yo you say that you's a gansta
but you never popped none
i say you're a wanksta
you need to stop frontin'
you are a deal flip
nigga look at my big dick
you been hustlin' a long time
and you ain't got nothin'

yo yo yo

My submissions was better

[drix]

Grousing about rejected submissions is, I know, verboten. But seriously, I miss the old /. days when the site had no lawyers and lots of balls. The editors these days seem to have a stuck "Boring" key or something, A better title (e.g. mine) would have been:

CNBC rewards Rosen's failure, incompetence by making her rich

Now that's a title that says something. I had some witty line the body about the Peter Principle. It was all good.

Pussies. :)

Re:don't count on it

[NanoGator]

"HR did not make the policy, she was just the mouth piece of the companies. "

More like a sphincter.

B5 quote...

[Rob Simpson]

"But once you've been inside of one of those ships for a while, you're never... quite whole... again. But you do as you're told!"

Re:Top 10 New Career Moves:

[Anonymous Coward]

Star in Playboy's "Women of the Internet" issue.

Don't copy, don't copy my vagina!

My vagina is licensed for only one orgasm. In order to use my image to enhance your masturbation, you must buy a copy for each ejaculation. My image can not be used at circle jerks as it's a violation of copyright laws.

Oh, god...

[SamMichaels]

Now we get to hear this idiot wind bag on TV even more? On a regular basis?

$5 says it was a settlement. The RIAA caught CNBC people sharing music at work and rather than sue the pants off them, they offered her a show.

Re:Or maybe....

[heli0]

So Orrin Hatch was auditioning for the job when he said the RIAA should be able to "destroy" peoples computers?

Maybe this is like Heathers...

[curtlewis]

Hilary Rosen leaving RIAA to become CNBC anchor

maybe that means...

Hilliary Clinton leaving Senate to head up RIAA.

and that would leave...

Hilary Swank quits her acting career to become NY Senator!

No, just a change in the way the news reports it

[Hecatonchires]

Anchors do influence how people think of the news presented. When she frowns as she talks about people 'stealing' songs, smiles when she reports their arrest, and flirts with her co-anchor when she mentions a new DRM product, people will get the idea that d/ling is bad, arresting p2p'ers is good, and DRM is sexy.

Mmmmmm. Cactus datashield. You're sooooo hot.

Hilary Rosen anagram = HORNY SAILER

[corebreech]

This is important! The people must know!

(want to piss her off? mod this post insightful!)

Re:don't count on it

[Pieroxy]

change in the way record companies think

Compilation error: Bad syntax at line 1.
Words like "change" and "think" cannot be used in a sentence along with "record companies".

hang on a sec...

[howhardcanitbetocrea]

Isn't this commentator sharing? Who can we see about putting a stop to this???

Re:Yea, she volunteered to be RIAA president

[El]

Hey, pay me $250,000 a year and I might pretend to agree with those positions too!

Re:Top 10 New Career Moves:

[Anonymous Coward]

By looking at the vagina, you agree to the terms of the Vaginal User Licensced Viewing Agreement. If you do not agree to the VULVA, you must promptly return your copy to the vendor for a refund.

-- Captain Chaos

Re:Fat chance!

[bsharitt]

It that case, I should probably download some Sonny and Cher songs, but I just can't do that to my computer.

Anchor?

[Esion Modnar]

Try tying her to an anchor, now that i'd like to see...

Re:don't count on it

[Sanity]

Compilation error: Bad syntax at line 1. Words like "change" and "think" cannot be used in a sentence along with "record companies".

Am I the only one that imagined this "joke" being spoken by Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons?

Sorry Slashdotters - the Simpsons were making fun of people just like you!

Re:Top 10 New Career Moves:

[lommer]

4. Star in Playboy's "Women of the Internet" issue.

um, have you seen [google.ca] Ms. Rosen? I don't think you could pay playboy to print that...

Good for her.

[bgeer]

Not only is she getting a promotion from shill for record labels to shill for GE and Microsoft, but also she'll be pleased to know that there is a 0% chance of her show ever being traded on p2p.