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Consumer Privacy and Government Technology Mandates in the Digital Media Marketplace

As consumer advocates, we necessarily favor policies that ensure artists and publishers’ getting paid for their creative work. We are willing to work with the record companies and the studios to come up with creative ways solve their piracy problem. What we won’t do, and what we believe the Congress shouldn’t do either, is attempt to set in stone the business models of the past while moving forward into the digital world.