p2pnet - rss feed: RIAA hits top US schools. But not Harvard
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA targeted several Ivy League universities in its latest “initiative,” as their RIAA calls it as it continues to wreak havoc in universities up and down up and down America.
InformationWeek notes that among them are Columbia University, Duke University, Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, and Brown University.
But what it doesn’t note is the fact that missing, significantly, is Harvard.
Or as Ray Beckerman puts it on Recording Industry vs The People, this latest anti-college round, “targets 7 out of 8 Ivy League schools, but continues to give Harvard University a wide berth”
One could be forgiven for thinking Harvard is escaping victimisation because it’s co-operating by sending its students RIAA blackmail letters, as are so many other US universities.
But that’s not the case. In fact, to the contrary, “take a hike,” Charles Nesson, William F. Weld professor of law, Harvard Law School, and founder and faculty co-director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society; and John Palfrey, clinical professor of law and executive director, the Berkman Center, told the Big 4’s RIAA attack dogs.
They stated:
This Spring, 1,200 pre-litigation letters arrived unannounced at universities across the country. The RIAA promises more will follow. These letters tell the university which students the RIAA plans on suing, identifying the students only by their IP addresses, the ‘license plates’ of Internet connections. Because the RIAA does not know the names behind the IP addresses, the letters ask the universities to deliver the notices to the proper students, rather than relying upon the ordinary legal mechanisms.
Universities should have no part in this extraordinary process.
Meanwhile, the InformationWeek story has RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) mouthperson Jonathan Lamy declaring the attacks on American students are necessary, “given the continuing prevalence of music theft on college campuses.”
He goes on:
“This theft triggers a harmful domino effect throughout the music community - thousands of regular, working class musicians and others out of work, record stores shuttered, new bands never signed.”
In a p2pnet post, a corporate music industry worker bemoans the fact that, “some people still believe that we in the music industry are ‘fat cats’ and that it’s [a] multi-billion-dollar cartel”.
He continues, “A lot of my friends has lost their jobs in the last few years, last week another big company were shut down because they couldn’t afford to keep going. All employees in five countries were laid off.”
However, “I’m sorry that you are making below minimum wage in the industry you are working in now. Since you love music, maybe you need to find a job in another industry and spend your hobby time producing and distributing music,” says Cyberscan.
“I am willing to guarantee that you will have a more original product. In fact the product that you produce in your home will be yours, and you can use it to advertise yourself or a friend’s business. If people like your product, they will either buy it or come to see you perform. If you are not a performer, try hooking up with a garage band that produces great music. Produce good music, distribute it for free … and add a link to your website. If the product is good, you will make money. Working for a big corporation is akin to slavery.”
Also See:
wreak havoc in universities - RIAA rage against US universities, November 17, 2007
InformationWeek - RIAA Piracy Fight Makes It To The Ivy League, November 20, 2007
Recording Industry vs The People - RIAA Targets 7 Out of 8 Ivy League Schools; Still Gives Harvard a Wide Berth November 23, 2007
RIAA attack dogs - RIAA student victimisation campaign, July 31, 2007
music industry worker - Tough going for Big Music workers, November 23, 2007
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November 23rd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
“A lot of my friends has lost their jobs in the last few years”
GOOD!
It’s mean the parasites are dying!
Continue the boycott! We can not Afford parasites in our country.
And by the way we all lost or job once in a while and we don’t make a fus about it why these pigs in th emusic industry should?
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
They will steer well clear of Harvard until they have precedence of law on their side. They desire the belly up victim to do that with. So they are playing Sheriff of Nottingham and robber baron to all they can find.
They are earning enough ill will with the public that in the end it will spell their own end. I know for myself, I long ago reached this point but more and more will reach it and come to their own decision on this. It is evident that they are now realizing this PR disaster as they have changed from the public world announcements to the local sector in hopes that locals will affect them less in the bad PR. Sadly they are mistaken in this as it has the same effect as it does on a larger scale. Only this way it takes longer but the effect will be far stronger for the build up.
Now they hope to pass off the search and find to anyone to be the bad guy but them. If they can find ISPs to tote the cost and bad publicity or the government then they can attempt to look again blameless. It won’t work any more than the RIAA being the lightning rod. It is the major labels this comes from and the major labels that will recieve the lack of my business because of this.
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:18 pm
You’d think the school that proved filesharing doesn’t negatively affect record sales would be at the top of their hit list.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
For my part, I have long since stopped buying Sony products, even though Sony BMG is a separate group. There is a Sony camera in my desk drawer, and it represents the last money they got from me. I really can’t understand why the RIAA members don’t see the harm this crap is doing to them. Maybe one day they will finally wake up.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I could barely finish reading this article because of the keyword popover ads. They are invasive and the most annoying form of advertising on the web today. I will not be return to because of them. Many others feel the same, but few of us bother to leave a note saying why we won’t be back.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I think the significance of Harvard as an Ivy League school missing from the list is being over-emphasized, b/c only 6 of 8 Ivy League schools are on the list (Duke University is not a member of the Ivy League).
November 25th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Cornell is an Ivy league school but was not on the list.
November 25th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Pirate every last note that the RIAA companies (scumbags) have a hand in.
These days I pirate stuff simply to do my part in their downfall. I want them to suffer a long drawn out defeat. Hopefully it’ll get to the stage where they’ll have to prostitute themselves on street corners just to earn enough for them to buy food. They’ve been ripping us off for years, they deserve no better.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
voline or anyone annoyed by advertisement on web-pages: Try Firefox browser with NoScript and Adblock plug-ins. I would also recommend the CustomizeGoogle plug-in.
I just love this combination - the ads and similar crap just disappears like magic!
November 26th, 2007 at 10:59 am
“I could barely finish reading this article because of the keyword popover ads. They are invasive and the most annoying form of advertising on the web today. I will not be return to because of them. Many others feel the same, but few of us bother to leave a note saying why we won’t be back.”
Adblock Plus + NoScript = Problem solved.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I’d much rather not have any ads at all, but without them, there’d be no p2pnet. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13332
Cheers!
Jon