"They're housewives and they're hackers," Hedgepath said. "I don't care if they have kids. I don't care that they are grandmothers. They're bootlegging us out of business."

The latest crazed recording industry executive on Napster? A movie mogul fuming over DVD piracy?

Nope. A needlepoint pattern publisher exec on doily-swapping grannies. While the dollar figures are much smaller, the similarities to the napster issue are quite striking, as alluded to in the article. (Stitched together at obscure store.) Posted by Bill Stilwell at August 01, 2000 12:00 AM