Hold up — I had a great time talking to the RIAA guy

A photo illustration of RIAA CEO Mitch Glazier

Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA.

This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s villain for suing kids for downloading music. That was when I decided to go be a copyright lawyer, which set the rest of my career in motion — and Mitch was in the background as a young lawyer at the RIAA working on those cases. So part of me was very deeply, very genuinely surprised to discover just how much fun I had talking to Mitch.

That’s because here in 2...

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