THe NYT have an accessible story on the PR difficulties both sides have in the MGM v Grokster case. Lots of quotes from the usual suspects.
"So many of the issues that we deal with are really abstruse, And yet they touch a whole segment of the public that we want to reach out to." Wendy Selzer, EFF.
"People knew they couldn't steal a video tape out of Blockbuster," Dan Glickman, MPAA.
The MPAA seem to have an easier message to sell but are still up against the greedy- corporation-that-sell-DVDs-at-ridiculously-high-prices image.
"It's hard for two reasons. Copyright law is not the easiest thing to explain, and it's hard to put a bumper sticker on it. But, you're also talking about the future, and it's hard to explain to a consumer that there could one day be a lot of restrictions on what you can do with new technology." Rick Weingarten, American Library Association.
Spot on.
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