All YOUR Fault!
The increase in [counterfeit/pirate] seizures is due to the RIAA's increasing aggressiveness as a crime-fighting paramilitary organization. But it is a good illustration of the desperate Sophism with which the industry seeks to lay the blame for its own failures on someone else's shoulders. The strategy is simple: criminalize a group of people, then blame them for the unpleasant outcomes of everything you do wrong. It works for governments; it will work just as well for mega-industries.
Concocted on Tuesday August 27, 2002
in the afternoon.
The hero has died as a modern man; but as eternal man -- perfected, unspecific, universal man --
he has been reborn. His second solemn task and deed therefore... is to return then to us,
transfigured, and teach the lessons he has learned of life renewed.
