Full Text Of Gary Shapiro Speech On How Downloading Is Moral And Legal

Thu, Sep 19th 2002 12:39am — Mike Masnick

Yesterday we posted an article about Gary Shapiro's speech, telling the entertainment industry that they were wrong. Declan McCullough has posted the entire text of his speech over at Politech. Go read it. The quotes from yesterday didn't do the speech justice. It's sad that I'm so surprised to hear someone talk so much sense these days. Absolutely worth reading (probably more than once).

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