Comments on: RIAA attacks University of New Mexico http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13466 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Doe http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13466/comment-page-1#comment-194083 John Doe Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:32:38 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13466#comment-194083 UNM sent this to all students today. Nice to know we have their support and that they might be willing to testify to things like how easy it is to spoof, or that the keys to all of their access points are completely open, or that their registration form can be hacked. Maybe a subpoena would help them defend their students. X-Real-To: Return-Path: Received: from [129.24.8.64] (HELO bianca.unm.edu) by regor.unm.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTPS id 95296811; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:49:59 -0600 Received: from bianca.unm.edu (bianca.unm.edu [129.24.8.64]) by bianca.unm.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l9GIMaVV019511; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:49:59 -0600 Received: by LIST.UNM.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.4) with spool id 4722483 for ALLSTU-L@LIST.UNM.EDU; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:49:58 -0600 Approved-By: stulists@UNM.EDU Received: from unm.edu (f5vs2.unm.edu [64.106.76.41]) by bianca.unm.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l9H1nTis027146 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:49:29 -0600 X-PMX-Host: Theta X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='SUPERLONG_LINE 0.05, NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' X-PMX-Version: x1 5.3.3.310218, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.2.313940, Antispam-Data: 2007.10.16.182922 Received: from [129.24.191.62] (account stulists@unm.edu) by theta.unm.edu (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 4.3.6) with HTTP id 18428868; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:49:29 -0600 X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.3.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:49:29 -0600 Reply-To: stulists@unm.edu Sender: All Students Mailing List From: stulists@unm.edu Subject: Illegal Music File Sharing Comments: To: allstu-l@unm.edu To: ALLSTU-L@LIST.UNM.EDU Precedence: list Sharing copyrighted material on the Internet without appropriate permissions is illegal. When you use UNM resources, like the campus data network, to illegally share copyrighted material, it is also a violation of UNM policy. Many of you know that the Recording > Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been aggressively suing > students at many universities for copyright infringement. UNM is > among the universities that have been targeted by the RIAA. > > The RIAA and other owners of copyrighted works, such as movies, > continuously monitor UNM's network to detect illegal file sharing. > UNM has received hundreds of notices of illegal file sharing from > these companies in the last year. When such notices are received, UNM typically disconnects the Internet Protocol address from the network. This spring the RIAA began > sending notices to UNM indicating that it intended to sue certain > students at UNM and identified them by their Internet Protocol > address. Lawsuits were filed by the RIAA in federal district court > in Albuquerque and UNM has received subpoenas seeking > information on the identify of the alleged file sharers on the UNM > network. UNM must comply with a valid subpoena issued by a federal > court. > > Recently the RIAA indicated that more lawsuits would soon be filed naming additional UNM students, unless those students agree to pay many thousands of dollars each to settle RIAA claims against them. Illegal file sharing has become > a risky undertaking at UNM, carrying with it a chance of becoming a > defendant in a federal lawsuit. A student who is sued by the RIAA > or other copyright content owner will be responsible for all costs, > judgments and settlements of such a lawsuit. UNM will not become > involved in the lawsuit on behalf of students. > > UNM strongly recommends that students should cease illegal file > sharing of music, movies, software and computer games in order to > avoid this legal liability. Dr. Eliseo Torres Vice President for Student Affairs UNM sent this to all students today. Nice to know we have their support and that they might be willing to testify to things like how easy it is to spoof, or that the keys to all of their access points are completely open, or that their registration form can be hacked. Maybe a subpoena would help them defend their students.

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Subject: Illegal Music File Sharing
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Sharing copyrighted material on the Internet without
appropriate permissions is
illegal. When you use UNM resources, like the campus data
network,
to illegally share copyrighted material, it is also a
violation of
UNM policy. Many of you know that the Recording
> Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been aggressively suing
> students at many universities for copyright infringement. UNM is
> among the universities that have been targeted by the RIAA.
>
> The RIAA and other owners of copyrighted works, such as movies,
> continuously monitor UNM’s network to detect illegal file sharing.
> UNM has received hundreds of notices of illegal file sharing from
> these companies in the last year. When such notices are received, UNM typically disconnects the Internet Protocol
address from the network. This spring the RIAA began
> sending notices to UNM indicating that it intended to sue certain
> students at UNM and identified them by their Internet Protocol
> address. Lawsuits were filed by the RIAA in federal district court
> in Albuquerque and UNM has received subpoenas seeking
> information on the identify of the alleged file sharers on the UNM
> network. UNM must comply with a valid subpoena issued by a federal
> court.
>
> Recently the RIAA indicated that more lawsuits would soon be filed naming additional UNM students, unless those
students agree to pay many thousands of dollars each to settle RIAA claims against them. Illegal file sharing has
become
> a risky undertaking at UNM, carrying with it a chance of becoming a
> defendant in a federal lawsuit. A student who is sued by the RIAA
> or other copyright content owner will be responsible for all costs,
> judgments and settlements of such a lawsuit. UNM will not become
> involved in the lawsuit on behalf of students.
>
> UNM strongly recommends that students should cease illegal file
> sharing of music, movies, software and computer games in order to
> avoid this legal liability.

Dr. Eliseo Torres
Vice President for Student Affairs

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13466/comment-page-1#comment-183238 Reader's Write Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:55:52 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13466#comment-183238 This Mertz guy seems like an idiot. And I say that with full knowledge of his status with the university. Keep in mind his JOB is to primarily protect the legal interests of the university and NOT the students. Remind him of "FERPA" (Google it) and how your (students') personal information is Federally protected, lawsuit notwithstanding. Ask him, point blank, to show you the law that says "it is illegal to offer files, copyrighted or not, for download by members of the public over the internet." He won't be able to since there is none. It is not illegal to "upload files or offer to upload files." The crime occurs at the receiving party using the files in a manner that is not appropriate by terms of the licensing agreement. IANAL, however you know the entire online world will be watching this trial starting in a few days...I hope "our" side's attorney does not muck it up by being dumb...he needs to read the recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com website. This Mertz guy seems like an idiot. And I say that with full knowledge of his status with the university. Keep in mind his JOB is to primarily protect the legal interests of the university and NOT the students. Remind him of “FERPA” (Google it) and how your (students’) personal information is Federally protected, lawsuit notwithstanding.

Ask him, point blank, to show you the law that says “it is illegal to offer files, copyrighted or not, for download by members of the public over the internet.” He won’t be able to since there is none. It is not illegal to “upload files or offer to upload files.” The crime occurs at the receiving party using the files in a manner that is not appropriate by terms of the licensing agreement. IANAL, however you know the entire online world will be watching this trial starting in a few days…I hope “our” side’s attorney does not muck it up by being dumb…he needs to read the recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com website.

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