Read the whole story @ p2pnet.p2p news / p2pnet: America's No 1 enforcement officer, federal attorney general Alberto Gonzales, is on the road as part of a deeply cynical dog-and-pony show set up by the Big Four record labels and Big Six movie studios, but implemented by the Bush administration.
He's visiting schools with horror stories of what'll happen if kids don't buy entertainment cartel product.
"I hope you never have the misfortune to deal with me as a result of engaging in something you shouldn't be doing," he warned 7th and 8th graders at Windmill Springs Elementary school in San Jose, California, states CBS News. "Illegally downloading music, movies and software is a form of stealing," he said, demonstrating his own appalling ignorance of the laws he's supposed to uphold.
No theft is involved, and file sharing isn't a criminal matter, efforts by the cartels to elevate it to that level notwithstanding. It's a civil one and what's at issue isn't if someone's broken a law. It's whether or not he or she has infringed a copyright, which is a very long way from "criminal" or "illegal".
Nonetheless, Gonzales' scare 'em all campaign is part of a week long program, "in which the kids studied Internet dangers as well as the moral, social and legal implications of Internet piracy".
"I am the top cop in the United States,'' he declared, says the San Jose Mercury News.
Kids Warned About Illegal Downloads @ cbsnews.