Comments on: Entertainent cartels vs US Students http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10043 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:04:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10043/comment-page-1#comment-124631 Reader's Write Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:14:33 +0000 #comment-124631 In Dr. Graham Spanier's defense (the Penn State bureaucrat interviewed in the RIAA's Campus Downloading), what Spanier actually discusses is the financial impact that the RIAA's copyright enforcement demands have had on Penn State. Spanier makes no direct claim as to whether the RIAA is right to place financial burdens on Penn State over file sharing. ..... Interesting how Keller prefaced the hearing by demonstrating an instance of file sharing that is both eminently fair use, and indisputably harmless to the cartels' profit. Just one more logical leap, and he'd hop right out of his corporate pocket and into the reality of file sharing. ..... Also interesting how the tone of the hearing is so buddy-buddy. I can just see these elected representatives of the people gladhanding with their former-politician-turned-deep-pockets-lobbyist pals. Heck, I can see some of these people cutting checks as they step down from the microphone. Just another election season campaign fundwank, by my estimation. ..... One undisputed assumption that should have been questioned before launching into the college file sharing debate: That colleges and universities are somehow obligated to advance the interests of corporate America beyond what is required by law. Why? In Dr. Graham Spanier’s defense (the Penn State bureaucrat interviewed in the RIAA’s Campus Downloading), what Spanier actually discusses is the financial impact that the RIAA’s copyright enforcement demands have had on Penn State. Spanier makes no direct claim as to whether the RIAA is right to place financial burdens on Penn State over file sharing.

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Interesting how Keller prefaced the hearing by demonstrating an instance of file sharing that is both eminently fair use, and indisputably harmless to the cartels’ profit. Just one more logical leap, and he’d hop right out of his corporate pocket and into the reality of file sharing.

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Also interesting how the tone of the hearing is so buddy-buddy. I can just see these elected representatives of the people gladhanding with their former-politician-turned-deep-pockets-lobbyist pals. Heck, I can see some of these people cutting checks as they step down from the microphone. Just another election season campaign fundwank, by my estimation.

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One undisputed assumption that should have been questioned before launching into the college file sharing debate: That colleges and universities are somehow obligated to advance the interests of corporate America beyond what is required by law. Why?

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