In this short but informative article, the Chronicle of Higher Education describes the RIAA’s back to school video campaign on college campuses. Though the article is clearly biased against the RIAA, it makes important points about the falsities that the RIAA campaign presents to college students as truths, citing the critics including the Consumer Electronics Association and Public Knowledge. The video tells students to beware of anything free, ignoring fair-use laws that allow students to copy music for productive, scholarly and home use (fair-use rights that the RIAA would take away as quickly as they could find a DRM code that doesn’t destroy computers). This article provides a nice companion to “Combating Internet Piracy on College Campuses,” the statement of RIAA president Cary Sherman to the House of Representatives Education and the Workforce Subcommittee later the same month. Though the RIAA is clearly making productive advances in accepting and finding a way to use technology productively (iTunes is a good example), the complaining about piracy has not ceased. In his statement, Sherman denounces colleges for not doing enough to stop piracy on campuses, alleging that the new online marketplace that the recording industry has integrated into its business model is threatened by the toleration on campuses of illegal file-sharing. Sherman offers to university administrators the same bogus anti-piracy website lauded in the video, www.Campusdownloading.com. It seems that, despite a moderate embracing of the internet by the recording industry, the scare tactics remain, both to college students and the colleges themselves.