U.S. Attorney General resorts to threatening children.

[innerpeace]

More tax dollars hard at work scaring children. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/31/scitech/pcanswer/main1458698.shtml

Kids Warned About Illegal Downloads

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31, 2006

(CBS) U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales visited a public school in Silicon Valley to remind a group of 7th and 8th grade students that illegally downloading music, movies and software is a form of stealing.

"I hope you never have the misfortune to deal with me as a result of engaging in something you shouldn't be doing," he told the kids assembled at Windmill Springs Elementary school in San Jose, California.

The Attorney General's visit was part of a weeklong program in which the kids studied Internet dangers as well as the moral, social and legal implications of Internet piracy.

He said, however, that education rather than prosecution is the key to enforcing copyright laws.

"We don't want to have to get in the business of prosecuting young men and women who are downloading songs," said the attorney general. "We want you to learn to develop a culture of understanding that this is intellectual property and, if you want to have access to this property, you need to pay for it."

Another administration speaker, Jon Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent Office, talked to the kids about how patents and copyrights help spur creativity and progress and how stealing intellectual property can hurt companies and their employees.

Thats right boys and girls, we do not want a bunch of criminals here in the U.S.  There are only so many places for criminals and most of them are spoken for in the Senate and Congress.   

[Lysander]

Uh, maybe he's talking about how downloading copyrighted material that oyu don't own for free is stealing to junior high kids because junior high kids are the ones who take it the most and downloading copyrighted material you don't own for free is stealing?

[GhostShip]

Maybe he is but is it really the place of the highest in the land to spout out the propaganda for the vested interests at the expense of the consumer, lets look at what he didnt say about cartels stretching the time limit on copyright to rip the public off and using DRM to steal fair use rights besides the constant over pricing.

I think we can see another theif on the payroll here, and Innerpeace just seems to have jumped to the end of the matter rather than just taken the offered soundbite.