they'll need a lot of jails to hold all 70m of us
The USDOJ, after many months of having resources "diverted" to fight terrorists,
is starting to focus on the real threat to America -- file-sharers. And they're using
the usual bad analogies:
"Most parents would be horrified if they walked into a child's room and found 100 stolen CDs...However, these same parents think nothing of having their children spend time online downloading hundreds of songs without paying a dime."
But having a MP3 collection is more the analogue of
copying albums from friends, which parents have never seemed to mind. Back in the rockin' 80s, our parents used to buy us blank cassette tapes
explicitly so my friends and I could make copies of each others' albums. What none of us realized is that by copying music we were leading the country into anarchy:
Christopher Cookson, executive vice president of Warner Bros. and another panelist, said there was "a need for governments to step in and maintain order in society."