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.
(Thanks, Kim!)
