The Record Indusrty Has No Shame

Aiming at Pornography to Hit Music Piracy
The major record labels are attacking Kazaa and other file sharing networks, because pornography can be downloaded from theses services. Having failed to control file sharing by shutting down Napster and suing individuals, the industry is now trying to smear file sharing services as smut dealers and child pornographers. To argue that Kazaa and Morepheus are "threatening America's children" (because it is always about the children, isn't it?) is to ignore the fact that Kazaa doesn't actually provide the material that is shared over the network, its users do and so the same charge could be made against any search engine or internet service provider, because YOUR CHILDREN could be turned into perverts and sold into white slavery if they come into contact with pornography because of these EVIL PURVEYORS OF FILTH. Despite the obvious absuridity of the RIAA's claims, the usual suspects have taken up the great and noble cause of protecting the youth of America (and the Record Industry's profits). Already a bill has been introduced to the House to require parental consent forms for children to use file sharing services and Captain Morality...er...Senator Orrin Hatch has scheduled for hearings on the file sharing and pornography. Soon we can expect jowly uber-square Joseph Lieberman to gravely warn us about Kazaa, the internet's Sodom and Gmorrah.

For more on the subject, see the RIAA's new anti-porn/filesharing wesbite here.