RIAA rage against US universities
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- The Big 4 music labels are calling it an “initiative’ as their RIAA continues to wreak havoc in universities across the length and breadth of America.
Overblown?
Senior American schools are squandering already scarce financial resources and tying up valuable staff time trying to meet the psychopathic demands of the people who run Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the members of the organised music cartel.
The idea is to terrorise students and turn teachers and administrators into acting as corporate copyright cops, paid for by parents and state and federal authorities.
Says the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), “In the tenth wave of this initiative, the RIAA this week sent letters in the following quantities to 16 schools including:
Boston University (40 pre-litigation settlement letters), Brown University (12), Central Michigan University (28), Columbia University (43), Dartmouth College (22), Duke University (27), North Carolina State University (38), Princeton University (10), University of Chicago (14), University of Connecticut (26), University of Maine System (34), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (14), University of Pennsylvania (16), University of Tennessee-Knoxville (32), University of Texas-Austin (50) and Yale University (11).
It works like this:
The Big 4, members of the organised music cartel, unable to identify people they can hang up as criminal thieves and “mass distributors” of copyrighted music files, flood universities with demands for student identities.
Rather than protecting their students, the majority of universities immediately cave in and instead of concentrating on their studies, students with the temertity to like music end up worrying about whether or not they’re going to end up on an RIAA hit list.
The chances of that happening to any given individual are slim to zero and as p2pnet posted recently, “The labels know that, but they wanted to create an artificial climate of terror, and they’ve succeeded.”
And sooner or later, the Big 4 will turn their attentions to schools in Europe and elsewhere.
However, the tide is turning inexorably against the labels as they continue to treat their own customers like filth.
Also See:
p2pnet - Record label corporate lies, October 25, 2007
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November 17th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
We should send them to Gatanomo Bay. Then we will have real terrorists in there instead of the poor Innocents afghan since almost all the real terrorists ran away. Hopefully they will be tortured.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Just Refuse To Pay! Refuse To Pay!