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p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Columbia University is one of the Ivy League universities to be hit by RIAA extortion demands.
Significantly Harvard, which told the RIAA to take a hike long time back, is so far unscathed.
However, instead of following that example, Columbia is using publicly funded financial and manpower resources to set up a department which will, to all intents and purposes, work for, and on behalf of, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
The university plans to, “create a Copyright Advisory Office, an administrative office which will provide educational support about copyright law and which will open on the first of the year under the direction of Kenneth Crews, a widely renowned fair use, copyright, and constitutional law scholar,” says the Columbia Spectator, going on:
“In addition, the University has already taken a proactive stance against file sharing, making all students sign an agreement stating that they won’t use the Internet to infringe on copyright and holding copyright infringement training during the annual New Student Orientation Program.”
Also See:
so far unscathed - RIAA hits top US schools. But not Harvard, November 23, 2007
Columbia Spectator - Illegal File Sharers Fight a Losing Battle With RIAA November 28, 2007
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November 28th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I wonder how long it takes for admission requests to drop? If i knew something like this about a school it would have been off my list in seconds. They better hope there offering classes that no other school offers.
November 28th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
The tuition costs should rise 15%-20% to cover this move. If they plan to go through with this, the university should make the riaa foot the entire cost of this act of stupidity.
November 28th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
That’s easy to continue to file share without an internet, you just use and external drive and move it from place to place. Instead of it taking a while to download, you can just transfer a hard drive at a time. Far easier to do now a days and the RIAA is seriously behind times.
Looks to me like they just made a move to increase the level of file sharing without the internet being involved.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:32 am
“That’s easy to continue to file share without an internet, you just use and external drive and move it from place to place.”
Next they will pass a bill to move XXX law enforcement into the undercover, IP division. They can move them from the undercover drug/pervert squads investigating politicians, as those guys don’t need to be watched due to their soppier morality. These under cover agents will wander the halls of academia looking for unsuspecting ‘infringers’. You’ll know them when they sidle up to you and whisper “Psst, buddy. Go the latest Spears?”
Of course, as seized drug proceeds should be used in the battle against drugs, seized ‘infringers’ property will be used to pay for the elite infringers’ squad. Not to mention tuition, I mean these dens of indecency must pay. Those that are being protected (big business) of course cannot divert funds from their bribery, oppps, I mean lobby interests, so they will not be able to contribute anything.