Mike Masnick at TechDirt has a pretty intense and comprehensive line by line take down of the recent editorial by RIAA chief Cary Sherman on the opposition to SOPA/PIPA and content theft in the music industry. It's worth a read sheerly for the snark factor, but it's also a good summary of the many missteps in the war on piracy.
RIAA Totally Out Of Touch: Lashes Out At Google, Wikipedia And Everyone Who Protested SOPA/PIPA | Techdirt: The RIAA may have been a master at creating moral panics in the past, but doubling down on the same failed strategy after it's been exposed is just kind of sad. I know Sherman has been at the RIAA for ages, but it's time to get a new playbook. The moral panic strategy in which you lie, conflate different issues, and present some massive problem without any evidence is simply not credible any more.
0 comments:
Post a Comment