In Hilary Rosen Vader I slammed the ex-president of RIAA for slamming Apple. In typical Hollywood sleight-of-hand she criticized Apple for iTunes DRM. But Hollywood sets the terms for Apple selling music on iTunes. So the blame lay not with Apple but with her and the entertainment industry.

In this article Rosen demonstrates you become your office. While at RIAA she led an aggressive campaign to sue developers and consumers that RIAA continues today. But now that she's left office and is just a consumer like you and me she has reconsidered her position.

Rosen writes recently in her blog "I do share a concern that the lawsuits have outlived most of their usefulness and that the record companies need to work harder to implemnt a strategy that legitimizes more p2p sites and expands the download and subscription pool by working harder with the tech community to get devices and music services to work better together. That is how their business will expand most quickly. The iPod is still too small a part of the overall potential of the market and its propietary DRM just bugs me. Speaking of DRM, it is time to rethink that strategy as well."

SiliconValley.com wryly notes that this is "An interesting change of heart for someone who once decried file-sharing as a "growing epidemic." "The unauthorized P2P file sharing problem poses tremendous difficulties not only for copyright owners and artists, but also for administrators on our nations' college campuses," Rosen told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property in 2003. "Rampant file sharing of music and video content imposes a heavy toll on all of us. Despite education campaigns about the illegality of file sharing, and despite numerous court decisions clearly holding that copying music, movies and other copyrighted files is against the law, there is an alarming disregard among students for Internet theft.""