Comments on: RIAA, MPAA, victimize students

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:57:18 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:51:12 +0000

“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

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:11:09 +0000

“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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:35:02 +0000

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?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:57:40 +0000

I wish I could have the gov’t and private universities work to keep my dated, broken business model afloat