We're not quite sure how we missed
ASCAP's Donny The Downloader, "a multi-media school assembly program" designed to dissuade children from stealing music that debuted earlier this year. Donny is a junior high nudnik "unaware of the bigger picture of why illegal downloading hurts the same performing artists and songwriters whose music he loves." Donny's cartoon misadventures are cut with live-action footage of "real-life, 17-year-old aspiring music creator Sonya Bender," who interviews various doommongering industry types about the death of the record industry. And the following transcript should give you some idea how effective the Donny program will be in reaching American middle schoolers.
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