Demonstrating their typical level-headed, open-minded way of thinking, the Recording Industry Association of America has come up with a simple solution for college students unable to pay their fines for illegally downloading music: drop out of school.
Cassi Hunt, a 20-year-old physics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, was told to get a job in order to pay her $3,750 fine or consider getting an emergency cash loan. When informed that Hunt already works three jobs and takes out significant student loans to cover her $42,000 annual educational costs, the RIAA recommended that she drop out of school to repay the debt, or transfer to a less expensive community college.
Yes, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable recommendation. The physics program at Worcester Community College is certain to be wicked awesome, and tech employers probably don’t place much value on a degree from MIT, anyway. Kudos to the RIAA for helping Cassi to find a solution that anyone with two or three brain cells to rub together would surely have overlooked.
