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the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college
Interesting discussion at Slashdot on an young girl at MIT who was told by the RIAA to DROP OUT OF SCHOOL to pay their fines for downloading music.There are some major issues that need discussion here. 1) Entertainment being part of the culture - the insanely long copyrights (currently 130 years) deny legal access to culture to the in-mature young. (sort of like hold drugs in front of addicts then arrested them when they use them. Entrapment 2) Peer presure is exterme in the college enviornments... I remember be shocked when the oldest was in UCLA. Each floor had its SHARING SERVERS and everybody new when the latest booty was there. - Again, we need to revist what all these laws mean in a criminal and social sense. Are all High School and College Students to be declared DEFACTO criminals just like the justice systems assume ALL DRIVERS ARE SPEEDERS? Should the whole nation be declared criminal of something and put in jail. 3) What does it say about Business when they are putting the nation's FUTURE (in this case a young woman from MIT who can contribute to both Firms and the Nation out of the talented workforce for downloading a $1 song?) Short sighted comes to mind. 4) It reminds me of the the RIAA trying to put soldiers in Jail as they went off to fight the Iraq war. AMAZING comes to mind. Also, small minds in LA! 5) This criminalzation of life reached another stage in a LA suburb a few weeks ago when they banned smoking tabacco outside with a $1,000 fine. The fine for smoking Mary Jane was a factor of 10 or 20 less! What gives? Anyway... we need to discuss appropriate fines and sentences for everything and behaivors of big business and big government in trying to make living life illegal and MAKING TAX PAYERS (not big biz) pay to convict and jail all these folks. BTW... I am surprised that immature young people have not taken revenge on the RIAA and MPAA. It says something about them when compared to the Riots in France or the Car Swarms in the MidEast. That being they are basicly good kids.... we need a way to change behaivors of both them, society and business without wasting their lives! /end rant You may flame away on principle but think about the waste. Drug users and killers are not treated as bad as we are starting to treat people who commit more minor infractions. Posted by: 3dc 2006-04-05 |
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