Hollywood vs US students
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Students Running Scared in Face of Big Music Intimidation
By Jon Newton – TechNewsWorld
When Princeton University Office of Information Technology policy adviser Rita Saltz learned the MPAA might follow the RIAA in suing students, she said, “My heart and viscera just shrank and chilled.”
Saltz is quoted in the Daily Princetonian in a story that reveals MPAA boss Dan Glickman has “expressed concern about illegal movie downloading on the University network and attached a list of 66 IP addresses associated with alleged acts of infringement,” according to university spokesman Eric Quinones.
Students Scared
In April, a Princeton student was worrying that he might face criminal charges and be thrown in jail on the instructions of Warner Music (U.S.), Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Japan, Germany), EMI Group (Britain) and Universal Music Group (Vivendi, France) for sharing music online.
The Big Four, who are each reporting eye-popping revenues, say file sharing is wreaking havoc with their bottom lines and demanded the names of 39 students they claim were sharing music online.
But file sharing isn’t a crime. And it’s never even been vaguely proved that it has any impact on entertainment industry sales, a point driven home by many academic and other studies.
Quinones said Princeton planned to cooperate with the RIAA, and affirmed the school’s commitment to “honoring intellectual property rights,” according to an article in The Princeton Packet.
Expressing Concern
Back to the movie studio cartel, Glickman didn’t say if the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) will actually sue any of the 66, but, Saltz said, “Our OIT office has contacted all of the students associated with those machines where the alleged infringement occurred.
“They were notified that we did receive this notice and instructed that if any infringement was going on, it should cease immediately.”
However, it seems there are no immediate fears of Princeton students being jailed.
“This letter was not a typical takedown notice, but rather an expression from the MPAA’s president to President Tilghman that the film industry is concerned about copyright infringement at Princeton and on other college campuses,” Quinones said.
Intimidation Techniques
Last August, Hollywood’s Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities (JCHEEC) said that “many different segments of academia have contributed their views and perspectives on how higher education should address the issues posed by illegal file-sharing.”
The organization said at least 20 universities had signed deals with commercial online music sales companies, including Napster II and RealNetworks, to allow them sell “product” turned out by the Big Four record label cartel.
Furthermore, the JCHEEC said, “Each year, university administrations experiment with the offerings and combinations that work best for them.” The organization added, ominously, “Even more changes are likely in the coming years, based on the experiences gleaned from the efforts now being tried.”
Penn State was the first university to sign up and now works hand in glove with the entertainment cartels.
Were Princeton only to follow its example…
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May 10th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
I wireless access point usinf private ip addressess and an encrypted connection is the best way to share files with each other. This type of impromtu network is used in many places.
May 10th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
princeton is a private university. they have their own private network.
how did the MPAA get in? did they hack it? shouldn’t they have criminal charges files against them for doing this? they must have hacked into private property (servers).
from what i understand, if they use i2hub or some other uni network, only students and staff have access to it. i know that i2hub allows students to invite other students from other unis who can access i2hub, but there’s a vetting system if you’re from outside a particluar uni – your university network has to be checked to see if it can access another school’s.
so how could MPAA get in unless they illegally hacked their way in?
May 10th, 2005 at 2:45 pm
A student under threat from a lawsuit gets an offer they
can’t refuse.
The only “Legal” way I can think of.
Pretty simple.
Pretty sad.
May 10th, 2005 at 6:38 pm
they wont stop until they’ve ruened the life of everyone thats ever touched a p2p program!
They enjoy making money by sueing everyone
May 11th, 2005 at 4:37 am
my name is LadyMatika and this is what I have to say about it,
Princeton is a bunch of woosies their mommy and daddy’s made them do it probably because they didn’t want to pay the fine or even go into court and starch their prissy names @@@@
and I’ve been saying that all they want is money for years even since napster got sued , everybody thought I was f**king nuts.
I said all they are using metallica was for so they can get more money out of people and everybody called me an idiotic a**hole and gave me crap , well look who’s been right all along now haven’t I , I say go into http://www.rollingstone.com’s music forum boards but they took it out because some dumb nitwit kept screwing up the boards because he didn’t like metallica, and whitney houston and kept on being a stupid a** racist.