Wednesday, March 30, 2005

What he Said

Yglesias spares me from having to address the Post's deeply misguided editorial on the Grokster case. It really is necessary to point out that a technology now taken for granted - the MP3 player - was fought by the industry. The RIAA sued Diamond Multimedia over their Rio player.

And, when Apple was running it's "Rip, Mix, Burn" campaign, Michael Eisner testified to the Senate that the ad campaign was encouraging illegal piracy.