Million Pirate March

Wired is calling it the Million Geek March. But that doesn't seem quite right. Perhaps the Million Pirate March, or just the Million MP3 March (would MMP3M take off as a new acronym?). Napster's call for a march to attend a hearing on Capitol Hill suggests a trivialization of the great marches for civil rights and U.S withdrawal from Vietnam. (The first 1,000 marchers get a free Napster T-shirt!)

Marching on Washington isn't about sitting calmly in a Senate hearing room. It's about great rhetoric (and levitating the Pentagon). Shawn Fanning is likely no Martin Luther King or or Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio, but if he were Savio, he might say: "There is a time when the operation of the centralized server becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the disk drives and upon the RAM banks and upon the routers, upon the motherboard, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who administer it, to the people who own it, that unless music is free, the server will be prevented from working at all!"