Universities To Be Sued Over Music Downloads
Adam Sherwin,
Times Online,
Mar 31, 2003
Though the reporting is no doubt factually correct, this article from Britain's Times Online is nonetheless a skewed and misleading piece (and shame on them for doing it). In the second paragraph we see an unsubstantiated, highly debatable, and yet unqualified assessment of losses suffered by the music industry. It suggests that "draconian measures" are being taken in the United States, when in fact most institutions are adopting the same posture as their British counterparts: "we would not support any university that told staff to start snooping on students. Staff have more important things to do, like teaching." Most of the article is devoted to quoting the recording industry's press release, itself a litany of fiction and fantasy. One wonders: what will the music industry do when it has alienated everybody?
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