p2pnet - rss feed: American schools -
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) attempts to shut down p2p file sharing by trying to intimidate users by suing them aren’t working too well, reports to the contrary (largely, its own) notwithstanding.
However, the ‘trade’ organ, owned by the Big Five record labels, appears to have had considerably more success in brow-beating America’s educational authorities into acting as RIAA p2p cops (not to say sales reps).
Two-thirds (66.2%) of the campuses participating in the 2003 Campus Computing Survey report have institutional policies intended to stop the downloading commercial music or video content from the Internet.
"These policies are most common among universities," says the Campus Computing Project project home page here, going on that almost four-fifths of universities (80.9% for public universities and 77.5% for private universities) have campus codes of conduct, "that focus on downloaded commercial content.
"In contrast about two-thirds of both public and private four-year colleges have codes of conduct regarding downloaded commercial content. Only half (49.6%) of community colleges participating in the 2003 Campus Computing Survey have campus policies that address the issue of downloaded content."
