BP Hires Former RIAA Boss For PR Work
from the why-don't-you-just-sue-all-the-oil? dept
It's been a little while since we last wrote about Hilary Rosen, who ran the RIAA for many years, and presided over its initial disastrous decision to fight the internet and go after users. However, we have to say that it's somewhat amusing to find out that BP has now hired Rosen for PR help in dealing with the oil spill in the Gulf. Hopefully "suing all the people who live along the coast" isn't one of her suggestions. But, perhaps she can figure out a way to blame the spill on "pirates" of some kind, right?![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Filed Under: hilary rosen
Companies: bp, riaa
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Well, the spill occurred in the ocean where pirates of the high seas reside, so yeah, why not? ARRRR!!!
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Pirates
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Oh No..
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Mike, that's an absolutely silly thing to suggest she'd do. Why would she sue the people affected by this disaster? The more proper courses of action are listed below:
1. Sue Mother Nature on behalf of those afflicted coast members. After all, the ocean was the delivery vehicle of the harmful oil, not unlike torrent sites are to infringing material.
2. Sue the Gulf of Mexico. They had this oil. HAD it. And then the stupid, thieving ocean swept it away on their watery water water. And they didn't ask BP's permission first! The Gulf of Mexico is a piratey raporist!
3. Release conflagoriffic studies suggesting that animals aren't harmed by oil. Didn't you know that everglade storks actually consume oil as a requirement for breeding?
4. Sue Jammie Thomas. My sources tell me that Hilary isn't sure why, but somehow this is all Jammie's fault. Probably for having a ridiculously spelled first name....
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You're shitting me. Where? RIAA blog? ;)
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We have, in fact, found their oil on the property of these pirates, so it must be the property owners on the coast that caused the disaster so they could collect the oil as it reached land.
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They might sue Twitter
http://twitter.com/bpglobalpr
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Thieves
"Those rotten scoundrel thieving pirate Gulf Coast residents are stealing BP's oil! It's BP's oil and they are storing it in the World Wide Ocean but just because its in the World Wide Ocean doesn't mean anyone with access to the World Wide Ocean can just have it.
BP created that content and they have every right to be paid by everyone who's gone to the World Wide Ocean and taken some of that oil content."
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Not converting oil royalties to roilties = opportunity fail....
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Wait for the seabird pictures
But does BP actually own "escaped" oil ? Or only oil it captures straight from the well ?
This is a serious question - if someone else mounted a salvage operation that captured 5000 barrels a day before it hit the beach, who would own the oil ?
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Hmmm, interesting PR spin....
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CAN you see tomorrows headline
and everyone runs and pays a GILLION dollars and BP GETS
PROFIT
RIAA / MPAA business is infecting everything
CANT wait to see the next law that comes out will be
COPYRIGHT OIL OR
YOUR CAR DOORS ARE TPMS and are copyrighted
THUS THE MPAA/RIAA can fine you if you have non approved people in the car and dont drive where they tell you
OH the joy as the ISPS er gas stations/mechanics are then forced into throttling your speed to 5 miles an hour anytime you want to drive the car.
NO WONDER THE USA ECONOMY IS IN A TURD
SAME WITH EUROPE
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unfair to PR flacks
Somewhere there is a post-RIAA interview with Ms. Rosen, but I do not have time to search for it tonight.
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http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/blackhat-lounge/199074-solution-gulf-oil-spill-solu tion.html#post1769129
(as a side note, I submitted my own idea of how to plug the hole on Techdirt but then someone on another form shot it down and made me look retarded. lol).
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Not so crazy talk.
It is not the public they are targeting, it is their representatives with which the RIAA have very good relations and knows the inside outs of the system and actually have hundreds of fronts to lobby in its favour so BP feeling threatened run up to them to contain the situation.
Society doesn't matter they are not the target of the PR campaign the government is.
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People who has good relations inside the government and know where to push.
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Her comments, when read, seemed quite belligerent when I saw them on Dmusic.com.
Pardon my french but:
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*ahem* Yeah, I never liked her or the MPAA's equivalent, Jack Valenti. Yes, I know he retired but his speeches are what roused the giant that is Hollywood to the "piracy" threat in the first place. Sad that his lobbying efforts were quite successful.
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