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By: Patrick Ross

Patrick Ross — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:40:12 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Rowena.

I fully agree. You might want to see my recent post on how important language is in a debate; “sharing” was one of my bugaboos.

http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2009/07/sharing-and-giving-and-orwell/

Patrick

By: Rowena Cherry

Rowena Cherry — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:34:57 +0000

Perhaps it is unfortunate that the practice of duplicating, publishing, and distributing copyrighted material is known as file “sharing”.

From childhood, we are taught that “sharing” is a virtue.

Is “inadvertent file sharing” an accurate description of the problem? If a burglar crept into my home through a door left open by my child, and stole my banking details, it would add insult to injury to be told that I’d unintentionally “shared” my stuff.

By: » Blog Archive » Inadvertent file sharing: more protection for consumers’ privacy

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:44:18 +0000

[...] “As far as I am concerned, the days of self-regulation should be over for the file-sharing industry. In the last Administration, the Federal Trade Commission took a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil approach to the file sharing software industry. I hope the new Administration is revisiting that approach and I hope to work with them on how to better protect the privacy of consumers.” [...]

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Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:56:04 +0000

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