RIAA quiz for university file sharers
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- In April, American educators saw a sudden huge, and unexplained, spike in the number of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG-inspired Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices launched at universities across the country.
Did this mean students were ramping up their file sharing activities? – wondered p2pnet.
“No,” said a reliable source. “Theres no identifiable spike in bandwidth usage at the campus level.”
But, one school which didn’t suffer under the deluge was the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
How come?
Because of a quiz, apparently.
Online file-sharers, “must ace before downloading or uploading files to any peer-to-peer network,” says a Newswise press release, going on »»»
Users must pass the test with a perfect score every time they request peer-to-peer access. In exchange they are granted six hours of access. No more than eight uses per month are allowed. Unused access requests can accrue to a total of 20.
The quiz includes questions about the difference between copying a CD and downloading music, and what types of works are protected by copyright.
Questions change, as do their order, each time the quiz is accessed.
The theory is, Lutzen says, that students could memorize the questions, but because they would still need to pay attention to how the answers are arranged, they would end up learning the material anyway.
Now you know.
Cough, cough.
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.Stumble It!
huge, and unexplained – Sudden ‘huge’ spike in school DMCA notices, April 25, 2008
Newswise -News Tip: Ready to Download? Pass This Quiz, August 8, 2008
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August 12th, 2008 at 9:14 am
RIAA stands for Recording Industry Assholes Association? I never knew that… I always thought it meant Recording Industry’s Assholes of America.
The quiz wouldn’t really do anything. People will just write down the questions with the correct answers on paper, and then share it with their classmates.
The only thing the quiz does is annoy people. Besides, what is considered “Peer-to-Peer Access” since Blizzard uses the same peer-to-peer networks to distribute legal update patches to World of Warcraft. Thus, WoW players will only be able to check for game updates 8 times a month after getting a perfect score, each time, on an retarded and pointless quiz.
Like everything RIAA does, it’ll only hurt the content industry; not help it.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Recording Industry’s Assholes of America
That works too