Friday, September 26, 2003

NY Times misuse of the term piracy continues I picked up my morning fishwrap copy of the NY Times to find, for the second day in a row, a front page article that misuses the term piracy. Dave nails the issue: "As long as the music industry labels all use of music on the Internet as piracy, and as long as pubs like the NY Times go along with this, the "problem" will never be solved. The music industry is insisting on a moral principle that they don't hold themselves to, that musicians should be paid for their work. They need to clean their house first, and that's going to mean disclaiming ownership of some of their supposed property, and deciding what they want to be paid for, and then asking for (and maybe receiving) help from the online community, in much the same way the US presidential candidates are." 9:15:47 AM