Comments on: News sites fight to keep spying hearing open

CNET Networks and others say a hearing about AT&T's alleged cooperation in a spying program should remain public.

[SqlserverCode]

Telco's

The Telco's will be spending the next decade in courtrooms, don't worry they will charge us for it somehow


http://www.otherthingsnow.blogspot.com

[Stalin Hornsby]

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[zrdunlap]

Glad to hear it

I am glad to hear for once that the media is prying it's way into something that truly serves "public interest". Bravo.

[marileev]

open is best

I'm very happy to hear that CNet and other news orgs are on the side of having an informed public on the telecom hearings. http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=60

[R. U. Sirius]

Cnet, you won

Good job.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/17/MNGFHIT30I1.DTL

[LeadushomeLORD]

Tele Spy This....

Don't Let Sprint Get away with it....

They've been giving my records.... To Someone.... For Something.....For Sometime...

[MrServo]

This Is Ridiculous

I mean honestly, how many of us back in the 80's and early 90's took our tape recorders and recorded our favorite songs off the local radio station after we spent 10 minutes on hold to request it? I'm guilty on multiple cases, should I be paying the $150k per song? Or should they start suing every one on the planet who ever produced a tape recorder?

Furthermore, it's my understanding that people pay for XM and XM pays for the songs. Technically, customers are paying for that music. So why not allow them to keep the songs to listen to? Hell, why isn't TiVo getting sued? They serve the same purpose on the television and they have access to all sorts of channels that play nothing but music.

I think the RIAA needs to pull their heads from the rectal orifice that they're obviously lodged in and file something worth whining about.