The Ballad of Zack McCune, Part 2
Comments: 8 - Date: July 24th, 2008 - Categories: Piracy, Podcast, Reporters In The Field, Uncategorized, Video Podcast
Here’s the second installment of our three-part video “The Ballad of Zack McCune.” You can view part 1 here.
What do you do when you’re sued by the recording industry? And how do kids and teens reconcile the law (and corporate interests) with a culture of illegal downloading? Last year, Brown University student Zack McCune was faced with both of these questions. He explains…
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Look for a new Digital Natives podcast every Wednesday, now through October. And Watch Part 3 of Zack’s story here on August 6th.
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Comment by Eric Schmiedl - December 10, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
Hey, I’m working on a paper relating to this stuff so I transcribed the video… here’s the transcript I did (missing the beginning) of Zack’s monlogue in case anyone needs it.
“…It felt somehow embarrassing, to be caught, to be named in the newspaper, to be kind of the victim of this. Half the people that I talked to about it would ask me, what should I do? On one hand, I wanted to tell them, hey, be safe, you probably don’t want to do it, but on the other hand, I had a very different reaction, I didn’t want to help an organization that had hurt me. I was supposed to kind of like infect the menatlity that file sharing is ok with this antivirus of no it’s not ok, it’s dangerous. […] Before I was sued by the RIAA, I never interrogated what I was doing, really. It was an activity that was largely unreflected upon. And when this was going down, I remember thinking, ‘Wow, I did something wrong.’ And I still believe that I did something wrong. I didn’t have the right to take that music. What’s just dangerous here is that there’s this voice of the establishment speaking down on you, raining a morality of ‘This is right and this is wrong. You don’t own this, you can’t take it, you can’t make with it.’ And when you read these articles in Wired magazine, the New York Times, you know, major news sources, about the music industry losing money, I’m shocked that they can’t see the obviousness of ‘We alienated like the most lucrative of consumer pools, being teens and young adults.’ And when you alienate your primary consumer pool, it’s hard to get them to buy both the Britney Spears album while you’re busting them for downloading the Britney Spears album. And I think that these things need to be rectified.”
Comment by Joan - December 12, 2008 @ 12:59 am
Great Job
Comment by Avinashtech - February 8, 2009 @ 9:11 am
nice read. Great perspective from point of view of teens