We don’t want to be cynical, we really don’t. But Monday’s announcement by the Recording Industry Association of America that its new leader will be US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s former chief of staff gives us pause at a time when Congress is trying to decide new rules for the digital age and the recording industry is lobbying for laws to keep an old power structure in place. Former RIAA head Hilary Rosen left the job earlier this year. She “had close ties to the Democratic Party, but that turns out to be not so useful now. If we get a new law relating to digital copyright, it will come through Republican-dominated committees.”