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Stephen Downes

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Overview article of the copyright debate, included here only because the bias is so easy to demonstrate. The first paragraph reads, "Buying an album or watching a film used to mean going to the music store or the movies, renting a video, maybe checking out the Columbia House catalog." Now suppose itstead it had read (more accurately) as follows: "Listening to music or watching a movie used to mean tuning the radio or changing the TV station." The first version implies a history of paid content. But the second version more accurately represents a history of free content. I can accept that there is a debate about the copyright issue. What I cannot accept is the constant media manipulation of the debate, including a history as revisionist as any under a less than democratic dictator.

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