If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission-if “is valued, then right” is true-then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of “big media” today-film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of a kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation’s pirates join this generation’s country club-until now.

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity