Jenni Engebretsen
Jenni Engebretsen
Jenni R. Engebretsen is a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department. In 2007 and 2008 she was the Deputy CEO for Public Affairs for the 2008 Democratic Convention. She was formerly Director of Communications for the Recording Industry Association of America, the Washington, DC-based trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry...
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Theft is theft. When you log onto an illegal service and download music for free without compensation to the artists, the songwriters, the publishers, the musicians -- all those thousands of individuals whose hard work and great talent has gone into making that music possible -- there is no difference between that and walking into a Wal-Mart and shoplifting a CD.
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As an industry, you can live with a low-grade fever, but you cannot live with a cancer -- and that's the level that we're currently at.
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Just as parents are talking to their kids about smoking, or alcohol, or drug use, they're now talking to their kids about illegal downloading.
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The Internet2 consortium is a unique and innovative test bed for us to explore technologies that will help us produce and distribute our content with an eye on protecting those creative works.
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It's plain and simple. Where there has been evidence of music theft, there are consequences for illegal activity.
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It's not our goal to wipe out piracy entirely. It is our goal to bring it to a level of manageable control -- just as our industry has lived with physical piracy on the street for a number of years.
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When you go online and illegally download music, there is no difference between that and walking into a local record store, convenience store, and shoplifting a CD.
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This online theft has taken a tremendous toll on the industry as a whole.
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We will continue to send a strong message to the users of these illicit networks that their actions are illegal, they can be identified and the consequences are real.