Friday, March 31, 2006

AG Gonzalez Shows Up at School To Scare Kids About File-Sharing


United States Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales high-fives with
Windmill Springs School second grader Luis Fajardo-Galindo.

Image source: Susanna Frohman / Mercury News

Mike Langberg writes in The Mercury News:

"I am the top cop in the United States," declared U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales in explaining his job Thursday afternoon to an audience of 80 seventh- and eighth-graders at Windmill Springs School in San Jose.

The nation's No. 1 law enforcement officer was in town to help convince students that intellectual property -- especially video games, music and movies -- deserves the same kind of respect and protection as any other kind of property.

Downloading a song for free from a file-sharing Web site, Gonzales declared, "is just like stealing blue jeans or copying off a neighbor's (school) paper."

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