ESA hires former RIAA exec

Industry trade group's new general counsel also served as senior counsel to US Department of Justice.

As if there was any doubt about it, the Entertainment Software Association today signaled that antipiracy efforts will continue to be its major focus. The gaming-industry trade group announced today that Kenneth Doroshow has been named its next general counsel. Doroshow most recently worked as the former senior vice president of litigation and legal affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), where he fought legal battles to uphold the copyright interests of record labels.

Among Doroshow's projects during his time with the RIAA were antipiracy lawsuits against LimeWire, Usenet.com, and AllofMP3.com. Prior to that, he served as senior counsel for the US Department of Justice's computer crime and intellectual property section. In that role, Doroshow is credited with playing "a key role in the largest-ever multinational criminal investigation of software piracy over the Internet."

Doroshow will assume the duties of the ESA's general counsel next month.

5 Comments

  • rpatrick32

    Posted Sep 15, 2008 8:52 pm PT

    these comments show how short sighted and moronic the internet can truly be... kind of like this comment with no facts or reasoning to back it up.

  • somberfox

    Posted Aug 20, 2008 7:00 am PT

    ...There is no god...

  • mrklorox

    Posted Aug 19, 2008 8:04 pm PT

    This has NARC written all over it. Everybody hide your stash.

  • umbrae

    Posted Aug 19, 2008 4:54 pm PT

    I just lost all respect for the ESA. Well, there was not much respect there to begin with, but at least they were not involved in all the shady legal maneuvers the RIAA was (suing single mothers and 13 years olds without computers, then when they were losing dropping the charges). This move could hurt the game industry as a whole.

  • Ychi

    Posted Aug 19, 2008 4:41 pm PT

    Translation: As long as you are on our buddy list and we get a piece of the action then its not "piracy" its good business. If you are not any of the above then we want money...

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