The Media Institute, February 17, 2010 by Peter Menell
http://www.mediainstitute.org/new_site/IPI/021710_FileSharingCopyrighted.php
This painful chapter in the transition to digital distribution reveals that although Joel Tenenbaum may have shared “Rosa Parks,” he is no Rosa Parks. His defense team’s choice to employ the rhetoric of social-justice movements devalues other, legitimate social movements, misleads the public, and obscures the critical legal issues of his and analogous cases—the scope of copyright’s distribution right and how statutory damages should be applied in file-sharing cases.