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Edgar Bronfman, head of the fourth largest music company, acknowledged in an interview that his kids have downloaded music without paying. He declined to say how he dealt with them. As a commenter (iburl) puts it:
Here's a basic moral test: If you think a punishment is unfair if applied to you or your kids, then it's unfair if applied to someone else under the same circumstances. That goes for Bronfman, for drug-addicted right-wing radio hosts, and for certain sitting presidents who favor locking up coke users for ungodly lengths of time. [Tags: music justice bronfman bush hypocrites smug_bastards] Posted
by D. Weinberger at December 6, 2006 03:38 PM
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Suing filesharers is public education. Candidates are carefully selected to maximise the impact of each salutary lesson to those who evidently need it and a deterring lesson to those likely to need it.
Music industry magnates are perfectly able to educate their children themselves, however, I have no doubt the RIAA would select them for tuition if it felt they would prove a more educational case study than the children of a lesser family.
So you can see, every child is selected with extreme care for their own interest and that of the public.
Posted by: Crosbie Fitch | December 6, 2006 04:16 PM