Ethical Dilemma?!?! Where?

The LA Times ran a feature today that begin like this:

Susan Philips has a conscience so sensitive to ethical failings that she feels guilty if she leaves her shopping cart adrift in the grocery store parking lot. Her influence is reflected in her elder daughter's career choice: Miriam Philips, 22, wants to be a rabbi.

On at least one moral dilemma, though, mother and daughter are on opposite sides. To Susan, downloading music on the Internet without permission is wrong. To Miriam, it's just what you do when you go to college.

The article then goes on to talk about how our generation is ethically numb to the idea that using Kazaa is stealing.

The story does mention that people our age dislike the fact that you have to buy a whole album of crap to get the one song that's playing on the radio, but doesn't even touch iTMS (money graf: "But James DeLong, director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank, said enforcement won't be effective unless the music industry offers compelling legal alternatives to file sharing." No mention of iTMS? Is this reporter tech-stupid?).

Anyway, it's a ridiculous article trying to make interesting points about the future of online music sharing (Hed: Tone Deaf to a Moral Dilemma? Sub: Millions download songs illegally but don't feel guilty. The industry wants to shake up their consciences. Targeting parents is one tactic.), but says nothing interesting except to point out that even nice Jewish girls steal music.

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