The entertainment cartels have wheeled out yet another spurious ‘report’ custom-designed to “prove” most universities are hot-beds of illegality and most students are criminal p2p file sharers bent on ruining the profitability of the hard-pressed music and movie industries, simultaneously causing extreme distress to industry workers and contracted artists.
Backed by the AAU (Association of American Universities), Organized Music’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) regaled the US House Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness with a corporate propaganda piece meant to encourage it to endorse further entirely self-serving entertainment cartel incursions into the US education system.
Subcommittee chairman Ric Keller not only acted as a cartel demo clerk, he also asked leading questions and stressed how US taxpayers would help pay the Big Four record labels (only one of which, Warner Music, is actually American) and the Holywood movie studio cartel, which admittedly includes a higher proportion of US companies than Big Music, to continue their efforts to sue American students into becoming compliant consumers.
Or as InsideHigher Ed puts it, “Colleges have shown a wide-ranging level of interest and success in stopping illegal file sharing on their campuses, a panel of higher education experts and entertainment industry executives told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday.”
