"The Sopranos" may be fiction, but it sure sounds like Paulie is advising the thugs at the RIAA on tactics - in a settlement discussion with an RIAA goon, a college student relates the following:

But as much as I tried to argue that I was in as unique a situation as someone with medical expenses, there was no getting through. Bowie even had the audacity to say, “In fact, the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements.”

"That's a nice collge education you got going there, kid. We wouldn't want anything to happen to it".