RIAA, MPAA, victimize students
p2p news / p2pnet: The Big Four Organized Music cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is laying off its customers, for the moment.
No new announcements of, file sharing criminals and thieves being sued have come since February. But this doesn’t, it seems, mean Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Uiversal or EMI have finally seen the light ie, you don’t sue the people who keep you in business: you woo them.
In the background they, together with their brethren in Hollywood, are working on other ways to nail us and in America (and elsewhere, no doubt) among other things, that means lining up the politicians.
Students sharing music and movies on campus networks may soon face stiffer penalties as the result of a U.S. Senate resolution calling on universities to do more to eliminate illicit file sharing across campus networks, says LinuxElectrons.
The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and passed on May 22, demands that colleges and universities ‘adopt policies and educational programs on their campuses to help deter and eliminate illicit copyright infringement occurring on, and encourage educational uses of, their computer systems and networks’.
Does that mean US schools will soon be flooded by ‘educational’ material such as Canada’s Captain Copyright, backed by teams of corporate music industry educational marketing specialists?
The Senate resolution, comes in the wake of increased political pressure against campus file sharing from the entertainment industries, says the story, going on:
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently sent letters to the presidents of 40 U.S. universities in 24 states … regarding file sharing activities on university local area networks. According to the letters, these two groups suspect that college students are using their universities’ internal networks to share copyrighted files with each other, thereby avoiding the Internet and staying hidden from entertainment industry investigators.
The notices, dated April 27, inform university presidents about file sharing activities on their internal networks and recommends launching internal investigations to ferret out offenders. The letters also mention specific software utilities used in these alleged copyright violations, such as DC++, a popular file-sharing application.
Also See:
LinuxElectrons – Senate, RIAA and MPAA Target Illegal File Sharing Across Campus Networks, July 16, 2006
‘educational’ material – Canada’s Captain Copyright, June 1, 2006
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July 17th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
I wish I could have the gov’t and private universities work to keep my dated, broken business model afloat
July 17th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
The joys of OurTunes on a university network with all the users of iTunes and Limewire sharing their music.
With Dorms, what stops one student simply burning a CD of MP3’s and passing it to the student living next door?
July 17th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
“With Dorms, what stops one student simply burning a CD of MP3’s and passing it to the student living next door?”
Nothing, yet.
That’s why they are changing their .. focus.
They have found people willing to fight them in court.
As a consequence, they have had to cut and run, since the
law doesn’t support their idea of “evidence”.
Because of this they have to buy changes to the law.
Once they have purchased law that reflects what they wish,
the suit will be back in full force.
If you see ANY of your elected officials supported any of this.
Vote them out. Even if they claim to change their tune.
Why ?
They have ALREADY shown they are either too stupid to research
what they are supporting, or are bought and paid for by the Cartels.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:51 am
“With Dorms, what stops one student simply burning a CD of MP3’s and passing it to the student living next door?”
This would be called “SneakerNet.” It’s very much like what we used to do in the dorms in the late 70s & early 80s. The audiophile would get together, buy a truckload of blank cassettes in bulk and then we’d record each others’ albums to cassette tape (or reel to reel on a TEAC.)
What are they going to do? Have the RAs monitor the hallways to ensure that no one is sneaking around to friends’ rooms with CDs and blank media? Surely everyone involved has better things to do, like study. Or drink beer…..
–TG
July 18th, 2006 at 6:57 am
The U.S. Government has NO business telling a private university how to conduct their affairs, discipline their students, or how and what to teach them. Somewhere, someone is spending a great deal of money to educate these student and they’d have every right to be rather angry their hard earned money is going towards indoctrinating the students with corporate propoganda and occupying the students’ time with having to listen to their biased crap instead of learning something useful.