x's theory of the commodity fetish to these groups, the students become the working class and the music industry becomes the ruling class. The music industry produces music as a product and the students consume it, which leads back to more production, causing the cycle of production to remain in tact. Marx says, "Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is. It is value, rather, that converts every product into a social hieroglyphic" (Marx 322). But as soon as the music becomes available to the students for free through file-sharing, this cycle no longer works and production therefore stops as well as consumption. So the music industry uses the university administration, which becomes the state apparatus, to enforce their ideology on the students and force them to continue the cycle through buying music instead of downloading it.
             The ideology of the music industry keeps the students in a state of false consciousness, meaning that
             "the members of the subordinate class, that is the working class, were led to understand their social experience, social relationships, and therefore themselves by means of a set of ideas that were not theirs, that came from a class whose economic, and therefore political and social, interests not only differed from theirs but were actively opposed to them" (Fiske 173).
             Because it is an industry dependent on capitalist values, the music industry imposes this false consciousness on students in order to further their gain from the consumption of music. Therefore, the administration directly perpetuates capitalism when enforcing the ideology of the industry by preventing students from using programs like Kazaa. If the administration is equal to the state apparatus by Marxist ideals, then it becomes "a 'machine
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