You Mean it Isn’t Free?

For a story on Bill Gates’s suggestion that users have to pay for e-mail, CNN Headline News reporter Christina Park said, “First music, now e-mail.”

Wait a sec. She’s first they started asking people to pay for music, now they want you to pay for e-mail.

Um, Christina, it’s not like music was free until last year. You were always supposed to pay for it. But people have been ’stealing’ it lately, see, and the music industry is trying to crack down. E-mail, on the other hand, has always been free.

(And please don’t take my use of the world “stealing” to indicate support for the RIAA and its methods.)