p2pnet - rss feed: New MPAA, RIAA university attacks
p2p news / p2pnet: Twenty-five American universities will have regular teaching activities curtailed as school staffs put normal routines aside to work as tax-payer funded entertainment cartel enforcers.
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have come up with a cool new buzz-phrase to captivate mainstream media headline writers.
It’s ‘LAN piracy’ and the Big Four record labels and Big Six studios are jointly using it as an excuse to launch a coordinated attack against American students, aka LAN pirates, aka ‘criminal file sharers,’ aka ‘thieves’.
And the Big Four record labels and Big Six movies studios confidently expect administrators and other staff to act as unpaid industry cops as part of what’s fast becoming normal school practice.
A “systematic” RIAA / MPAA program” will, “identify and curtail” campus Local Area Network piracy at universities across the country, say the RIAA and MPAA.
“As part of this new program, the RIAA and MPAA today sent letters to 40 university presidents in 25 states alerting them of LAN piracy problems on their campuses and encouraging immediate action to stop and prevent theft by such means.”
Universities on the receiving end are in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, DC.
Normal teaching curricula will not be resumed as soon as possible.
April 27th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
stop the presses!!!
Students like music!!!
and they have the gaull to share what they like with other students!
OMG! If the free marketing keeps up how will the RIAA’s owners justify that big chunk of change they ’steal’ from musicians for marketing.
April 27th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Other artists are starting a movement to boycott artists that support RIAA actions.
Along with this is my idea for the audience to fall silent all summer long on the 3rd tune in a concert so these artists and their controlling companies get the message.
Stay free. Silent on three. Keep P2P.
Are they attacking on behalf of the artist or on behalf of their own profits. If they are all in the same then they will fail. Their fans will only be numb brains awaiting instruction to think.
April 28th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
All universities should tell the RIAA/MPAA to SHOVE it. It’s a waste of universities’ time, money and the students’ money for this kind of BULL SHIT to be going on. PERIOD.
April 28th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Universities, just say “NO!” is what that title should read.
April 30th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Is there any data to support this article? Or is this just a tactic just to get readers upset? This story just seems like a joke.