It has finally happened. Music fans -- 261 of them -- are being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for swapping songs online. It's the greatest self-inflicted public relations debacle in the history of the music business. But, more interestingly, it provides a fascinating look at the true face of Internet piracy: a cross-section of middle Americans including a grandfather, a bus driver and a twelve-year-old girl. It's not a posse of spiky-haired boy punks, it's the Partridge Family.
For years, the industry and the media have been hyping the image of the boy hacker, alone in his dorm room, sucking down gobs of Korn and Cake. The stereotype was epitomized by Shawn Fanning, the nineteen-year-old who invented Napster
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