The online piracy debate supplies central casting villains for all sides. On the one hand, Rupert Murdoch. When the Obama administration objected to granting the authorities power to make offending websites disappear (“domain name system blocking”), Murdoch tweeted this grotesque exaggeration: “Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters.” Then you have the operators of The Pirate Bay file-sharing website. They offer the childish brag that because they don’t actually store stolen content, it is “not possible to hold the people behind The Pirate Bay responsible” for stealing. Someone, please lock these people in a room together.
在圍繞網絡盜版的辯論中，各方有一套中心反派人物。一方面是魯珀特?默多克(Rupert Murdoch)。當奧巴馬政府反對授權有關部門讓違規網站消失（域名系統屏蔽）時，默多克在Twitter上發布了一條怪誕夸張的評論：“奧巴馬跟硅谷的金主們站到一起了”。另一方面則是文檔共享網站海盜灣(The Pirate Bay)的運營者。他們幼稚地自詡：因為他們沒有儲存盜版內容，所以“不可能要求那些海盜灣背后的人”對盜竊負責。來人！把這兩撥人都關在同一間牢房吧！