In an article on Inside Higher Ed, an online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education, RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol and President Cary Sherman explain why they are suing college kids for piracy.

Besides the normal rhetoric of lower profits, artrists not getting paid, yada yada yada, there’s this bit:

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.

Wow, this is the same group that has made billions supporting and promoting sex, drugs and rock & roll, has supported and promoted thug life and the gangster lifestyle, and pretend to care that they’re really worried about musicians’ fortunes while robbing them blind. I’m glad they’re so concerned with the moral charachter of Americas teens.

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