The NY Times' blinders on digital rights

Larry Lessig has a dead-on observation about how the New York Times -- like most mass media -- can't get beyond framing the issues at stake in the digital culture wars as pitting pro-piracy advocates who favor file sharing against anti-piracy defenders of artists' rights.

No, it's not simply misleading in how it simplifies a complex issue. It's also inaccurate -- and disappointing.

Stop framing this through your distorted lens. Stop parroting Hollywood's script. Start seeing it for what it is.

That's what good journalism is supposed to do.