There goes the Network Neighborhood: RIAA and MPAA in bed with ISP's

Special content delivery rates for RIAA and MPAA and lots of content and support for anti-net neutrality legislation. And, this back room deal is struck after all the corporate players didn't bother to show up at the FCC's public hearing at Stanford (http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/21/2250207.shtml)

clipped from www.variety.com MPAA, RIAA going steady with ISPs Leaders say relationship will continue By WILLIAM TRIPLETT The content industry's budding cooperative relationship with broadband service providers will continue to develop even after their current principal common interest ceases to exist, top execs said Thursday. As part of an Institute for Policy Innovation panel addressing online piracy, leaders of Hollywood, the recording industry and the wireless industry touted the beginnings of a long-term relationship built on a foundation of making the Internet a thriving market for legal content and a dead end for bootleggers. "We're all in this together," said MPAA chairman-chief exec Dan Glickman. "We're moving toward a world where all our interests align," said RIAA chairman-CEO Mitch Bainwol.