July 7, 2005
The Real Fear Mongerers
I did not expect DeLong to respond at all to criticism below (and Ernest’s follow-up here). I certainly did not expect DeLong to reaffirm his position that ACSs amount to gulags.
So I ask you: who are the real “fear mongerers” in the copyfight?
I think ACS is not a particularly good response to widespread
infringing file-sharing; it’s better than many alternatives, but I
still think of it as a policy of last resort.
But DeLong’s assessment here defies all reason. I often disagree
with DeLong, but at least I can respect his beliefs. In this
case, he’s either plain deluded or taking the cheapest of cheap shots
to avoid making substantive arguments. Either way, his comparison
to gulags is outrageous, and, as Ernest puts it, “grotesque hyperbole.”
Ernest tears into DeLong here. His revised Godwin’s law was on my mind as well – Miller’s Law, anyone?
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