US group says “P2P isn’t immoral or illegal”
After months of making low-key complaints, a consumer electronics maker trade group yesterday launched a bitter attack on record labels’ and movie studios’ anti-piracy campaigns.
In a speech given at a storage technology conference in San Francisco, Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro blasted the copyright owners’ “scorched earth” legal and policy drives. He also warned policymakers against passing new legislation without serious scrutiny of labels’ and movie studios’ claims.
“The entire theme of the copyright community is that downloading off the web is both illegal and immoral,” Shapiro said, according to the text of his speech. “It is neither.”
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