This article is a few months old, but I was pleased to see the recording industry and ASCAP, along with Microsoft, Verizon and the US Dept. of Justice, are going to use some of their vast resources to help fund education.
http://news.findlaw.com/wash/s/20070815/20070815111121.html
Those funds, however, will not be used to update computers, classrooms, text books, or to otherwise better our public schools with lower student-teacher ratios and broader offerings of extracurricular activities. This campaign is about Donny the Downloader and his piracy exploits.
It is interesting to note that this article alludes to the idea that teens illegally download because they think that everything on the Internet is free. I'm not sure that assumption of ignorance isn't naive. I would think that most people who illegally download don't care if it's legal or not: for them it's more a matter of convenience and accessibility.
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"...for them it's more a matter of convenience and accessibility."
To say nothing of expense (or lack thereof...)
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