Remember "Reefer Madness," the 1950s scare flick intended to warn teenagers about the danger of marijuana? One puff, and suddenly you're a motorcycle hoodlum. And now, half a century later, comes the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.) with its own horror film for teens, called "Campus Downloading." In the video, college students are warned that they could get kicked out of school and charged as criminals for - gasp - downloading music without permission or without paying a "fee." Copying? Communist! Burn a mix disc for your girlfriend, and you'll burn in copyright hell.

The scary thing is, the R.I.A.A. seems to have no concept of fair use. And what's this banshee wail that consumers don't really buy and own digital music, but rather only license the use of it for a fee? Silly me, I thought I was buying music online and that I could do anything I want with it. I must be a dope-head. And hey, you'd think the RIAA would be able to find some decent music for the video, but nooooo.