Internet Sparks a Copyright Fire
Robert MacMillan,
Washington Post,
Jun 24, 2003
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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