From Scott Rosenberg, in Salon:
My kids are big Richard Scarry fans, and one of their favorite books is a little paperback titled "Pie Rats Ahoy!" (Yes, these successors to Captain Hook are tiny rats who steal a pie from the seafaring hero.)
I thought of that punning title as I read the latest batch of headlines from the file-swapping wars. The RIAA and its member labels have now taken the final step (one I predicted nearly four years ago, as I recalled here) of declaring all-out war on the music fans who are their own best customers — and who have in recent years taken to file trading en masse because of the music industry's price gouging and its pathetic reluctance to adapt to new technology.
