RIAA explains Why They're Suing your Children

The RIAA is suing school children and many others who download pirated music. When the RIAA was asked why are they suing the children, Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman of RIAA explained the following in an article in Inside Higher Education.

Yet this is about far more than the size of a particular slice of the pie. This is about a generation of music fans. College students used to be the music industry’s best customers. Now, finding a record store still in business anywhere near a campus is a difficult assignment at best. It’s not just the loss of current sales that concerns us, but the habits formed in college that will stay with these students for a lifetime. This is a teachable moment — an opportunity to educate these particular students about the importance of music in their lives and the importance of respecting and valuing music as intellectual property. RIAA says if we don't prevent such things they will get spoiled later. Because of music piracy, RIAA claims they are losing a lot, including billions of dollars in lost revenue, millions of dollars in lost taxes, thousands of lost jobs, and entire industries struggling to grow viable legitimate online market places that benefit consumers against a backdrop of massive theft. In order to ease the burden on the students on these lawsuits, RIAA says they have made an arrangement with copyright violators to settle the lawsuit at a lower rate before it is pursued in the court. The article concludes, RIAA is represented by the people who created sex, drugs and rock and roll, who glorified thug life and guns, are suddenly all concerned with the moral character of America's teens. That's about as credible as the idea that they're really worried about musicians' fortunes. What do you think about RIAA are they benevolent or malevolent?