Hollywood Chases Down Campus Pirates
John Borland,
Cnet,
Oct 11, 2002
More coverage of the Recording Industry Association of America's ongoing publicity campaign to portray music traders as hardened criminals and to convince college administrations to act as proxy police forces (hey, they use loaded terminology, I use loaded terminology). Now they have convinced various higher education associations to go along with this. The RIAA wants administrators to believe that "It is no different from walking into the campus bookstore and in a clandestine manner walking out with a textbook without paying for it." But there is an alternative point of view: "It is no different from loaning your college room-mate your Biology text." Of course, the RIAA would like to make that illegal too.CRLF
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