The RIAA Sues Your Children to Teach Them a Life Lesson

RIAA:

Kim sez, “Mitch Bain­wol and Cary Sher­man of RIAA try to explain why they are suing stu­dents with a new arti­cle in Inside Higher Education.”

“Yet this is about far more than the size of a par­tic­u­lar slice of the pie. This is about a gen­er­a­tion of music fans. Col­lege stu­dents used to be the music industry’s best cus­tomers. Now, find­ing a record store still in busi­ness any­where near a cam­pus is a dif­fi­cult assign­ment at best. It’s not just the loss of cur­rent sales that con­cerns us, but the habits formed in col­lege that will stay with these stu­dents for a life­time. This is a teach­able moment — an oppor­tu­nity to edu­cate these par­tic­u­lar stu­dents about the impor­tance of music in their lives and the impor­tance of respect­ing and valu­ing music as intel­lec­tual property.”

Hilar­i­ous: the peo­ple who cre­ated sex, drugs and rock and roll, who glo­ri­fied thug life and guns, are sud­denly all con­cerned with the moral char­ac­ter of America’s teens. That’s about as cred­i­ble as the idea that they’re really wor­ried about musi­cians’ fortunes.

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