Rewriting Copyright History, the Elitist Way: Compare File-Sharers to 9/11 Terrorists

When we first debunked Hank Williams’s problematic attack on Mike Arrington for suggesting, reasonably, that copyright law had reached the point that it needed a serious rethink, someone told me that Hank Williams is trying to become “the next Andrew Keen.”

Keen, of course, wrote a book last year about how the internet is somehow destroying culture, with the basic thesis being that “culture” is defined only as professionally produced content. Effectively, his argument was that non-professionally produced content simply can’t be good, so by competing with professionally produced content, all that amateur content was somehow damaging professional content.

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