Rick Carnes: Digital Looting is Bad for the Internet

By Arts+Labs on March 15, 2010 1:14 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Songwriters Guild of America president Rock Carnes speaks out against digital theft at The Hill.

Those who devalue intellectual property seem to want a world in which all online content is "free" - even if you have to steal it. As consumers, we all like a bargain. But one wonders where the content will come from or who will pay the creator when everything is free. Even 1970s revolutionary Abbie Hoffman charged $1.95 for his best seller "Steal This Book," and if you took it from a bookstore without paying we called it shoplifting."

Read the entire Op-Ed here.

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