Hatch pledges to keep online music accessible. “Putting the recording industry,
entertainment conglomerates and even
the future AOL-Time Warner on notice,
the chairman of the U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee warned that he
would work to ensure that online music doesn’t fall under the control of a few
powerful distributors.

At a two-day conference on the future of digital music that pitted such parties as
Napster and the Recording Industry Association of America against each other in
panel discussions, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, pledged to use his position to keep
the Internet open for the benefit of fans and artists.” CNN