Dropped to Number Two as Times Online Moves Up

Techdirt:Press Pats Itself On The Back For Parroting The Recording Industry’s Spin

The Times Online, in the UK, has yet another article about file sharing that pretty much does everything it can to spin everything towards the recording industry’s point of view, while patting itself on the back for not reacting negatively to stories that the British version of the RIAA (the BPI) was suing kids for sharing unauthorized music files. The closest the article comes to a more balanced view is asking one struggling musician whose son was one of those charged about how she would feel about people sharing her music. At first, she says she wouldn’t mind so much, since it would be great for people to hear her music. The reporter then asks a leading question, asking how she would feel if she was a big success, and five million people were downloading her album, and gets her to say she’d be angry that five million people were “stealing” her album. This whole exchange is seriously problematic for a variety of reasons.