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October 27, 2005
False analogy
Cashing in on the international plagiarism hysteria, the president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association tries to tie music downloading to the purchase of term papers:
The way that people approach material accessed on the Internet is tangibly different from how they treat physical property,” said CRIA President Graham Henderson. “If you can go on the Internet, and download a movie — it’s okay, fine. If you can find somebody’s writings and cut and paste big chunks of it into your essay, no problem.”Um. Both are done on the Internet, hence they're the same thing? At the Sweetwater conference, Lawrence Lessig recommended Darknet: Hollywood's War against the Digital Generation. Make that Canada's war, too, Larry.
Posted by senioritis at October 27, 2005 08:50 PM