RIAA Hits Students Where It Hurts

“University officials say once file traders are notified they’re breaking the law, they don’t tend to repeat the offense. | But some believe the recording industry is so fed up with the continuing problem of illegal file swapping that it’s trying to send a message to administrators and students.”

—RIAA Hits Students Where It HurtsWired)

I have neither a financial nor an emotional stake on the music piracy issue. From this standpoint, I can see the industry has made billions of dollars by carefully training youths to indulge their passions and disdain all authority. It’s little wonder those same youths turn a deaf ear when recording executives and artists start preaching ethics and morality.