p2pnet - rss feed: Sudden ‘huge’ spike in school DMCA notices
p2pnet news | Freedom:- A significant number of senior US school and universities are noticing “an enormous spike” in Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices, p2pnet has been told.
Does this mean students are ramping up their file sharing activities?
No, says a reliable source, stating, “There’s no identifiable spike in bandwidth usage at the campus level.”
Now some higher education authorities associated with the so-called Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities are demanding an explanation, we understand.
The JCHEEC was created to give the appearance that movie and music companies are working and cooperating with schools across America.
In fact, through their MPAA and RIAA, Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, aka Hollywood, and the Big 4 record labels are working against them, using school administrators as copyright cops to try intimidate students into becoming compliant consumers of corporate ‘product’.
The source says she doesn’t know if the sudden upsurge is tied to the entertainment cartel inspired HR 4137, which calls for mandatory anti-file sharing obligations for universities, “but it’s not an outlandish thought”.
Two pages of the 800-page act would hold schools responsible for file sharing that takes place mostly off-campus, and also make them responsible for installing so-called filters to block anything not approved by the RIAA or MPAA.
“The House of Representatives passed HR 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, a sweeping bill that among many other things requires every college and university to develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity,” said Educause’s Mark Luker, recently, going on >>>
These requirements are ill conceived and would be harmful to higher education if passed into law. The legal online services they imagine are immature and have been rejected by student communities on many campuses, even when offered at no charge.
The technological deterrents they imagine are unproved and expensive, do not work well in practice, and repeatedly have been rejected by campus experts looking for real solutions. It is unclear how these plans will be evaluated for compliance with the law or by whom (for example, by the Secretary of Education). It is also unclear what penalties will be applied to campuses whose plans are found not to be in compliance.
Once campuses are required by law to make such plans, it is only a matter of time before they will be required to implement them. Together these requirements will increase the cost of higher education by hundreds of millions of dollars without solving the problem of copyright infringement on campus networks.
Recent statistical corrections show that campus networks are responsible for less than 3% of the financial losses claimed by the MPAA. We need your help now to block these requirements as the House and Senate bills are reconciled in the Conference Committee.
We’ve been asked not to name the major universities singled out for the attacks, but we can give an idea of their severity >>>
- university A this week received hundreds of notices, and all from RIAA, when the usual volume is 70-80/month)
- university B says last year’s volume has been trebled.
- university C reports receiving more the DMCA notices this week and throughout all of last fall
- university D’s ‘intake’ has soared from between five and seven notices per week to 120 this Monday and Tuesday.
- university E as similarly seen a “huge increase” this week
- university F’s volume has trebled over last year’s volume
- notices sent to university G are “significantly up” since January
- university H says there’s been a noticeable increase this week
- university I is now receiving 20-30 notices a day
- university J says it’s getting 30-40 per day
- university K states there’s been a “sharp” upswing since Tuesday.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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April 25th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Maybe the stupid fucking universities should have never gotten into bed with the devil?
April 25th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
The DMCA is an inconstitutional law so if you recieve a DMCA notice you can use it as toilet paper just like the law itself. DMCA is a non law. It is nule and non-enforcable. Any attempt to enforce the DMCA is a crime punishable by fines an prisons terms. This is the law.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
The “law” is what a random judge decides it is.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Whatever the RIAA/MPAA/CRIAA whatever do it will not make us go bake and give money to these parasites! Even if they kill internet we will never ever conduct business with these pigs! No way!
If evryone was boycotting them it would take less than a year to bring them on the ground. Instead this is these slow painful death during which these parasites are inflicting damages to our society in the process.
The Boycott is growing, yes, and this is good news, but we need to speed up the growth, in order to mitigate the damages these bag of crap are inflicting to our societies.
No CD, No download, no DVD no cable and no movie theater! Not a penny should go to Vivendi/Universal(CBS, ABC, NBC,Fox) Sony/BMG, EMI or Time Warner.
Boycott! Boycott! Boycot! Boycott!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
“The “law” is what a random judge decides it is.”
Fuke the random judge! We can use him/her as toilet paper too!
April 25th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
No…that’s the money you give your lawyer that gets used as toilet paper…
April 25th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
It’s very easy to see the reasons behind the spike, especially regarding the RIAA.
They know that Mr. Gabriel’s tactics are finally coming around to haunt them, now that public exposure may be upon them if discovery starts in the Anderson case.
The other major issue is that the lack of licensing for SafeNet/Media Sentry as a private investigator will soon be hit very hard in ongoing cases.
This is a bad double hit, so the best tactic for them is to produce a flood of notices before people wise up and hope that many of them will pay the extortionate “settlement fee”.
After this flood, there will be a hiatus for a while as the RIAA makes some major changes to their methodology. The first is that SafeNet/Media Sentry will no longer be retained due to their lack of appropriate licenses. The RIAA may purchase licensing/rights to SafeNet/Media Sentry “technology” and have the actual “investigative” work done in house or by appropriately licensed investigators, or they may opt to go with some of the licensed investigative firms who have approached them due to rumors that SafeNet/Media Sentry is going to be canned.
Mr. Gabriel will have to explain to the RIAA that the costs of the resumed campaign will increase significantly due to the fact that more judges are considering sanctions regarding the improper joinder of numerous Does. This will entail billable hours and filing fees for each Doe.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Instead of everyone sucking up to and encouraging them they should have opposed them right from the start. Then they’d HAVE no power now.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Its the end of the school year.
Students will take summer jobs.
the RIAA/MPAA wants their cut of that summer income.
What better way to get it.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Easy Targets. They are on large networks that somehow can be monitored by them (legally or illegally). My sharing is more sporadic (locationwise) in comparison.
What they are not considering is that all the younger siblings to these college students are learning to hate the RIAA also, and future generations will have zero sympathy towards their corporate copyright whining.
Stealing the education of a student is more morally reprehensible than downloading a song.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Seems likethe RIAA make it a point of duty to shake down these university studentts, smell like extrotion to me. Why wonLt someone just countersue these bastard and let then know that suing ppl is net the why you keep your consumer base.