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p2pnet.net News:- Here’s a fascinating ‘To Whom it May Concern’ missive from Mark Luker, EDUCAUSE vp. It’s for, and on behalf of, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the Big Four Organized Music Family, and it goes:
Please let me call your attention to a short, effective video for educating students about the consequences of illegally downloading copyrighted materials developed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The video can be downloaded or a free DVD can be ordered from http://www.campusdownloading.com/
This video can be a useful supplement to current efforts on your campus to alert students to their copyright obligations and legal risks as well as to manage the impact of file sharing on network infrastructure.
EDUCAUSE and the American Council on Education (ACE) have been working for several years with college and university leaders, other higher education associations, the RIAA, and the Motion Picture Association of America to address the consequences of illegal file sharing. Recently, members of Congress have asked the higher education community to actively support measures to address this problem.
ACE is bringing this video, titled “Campus Downloading,” to the attention of college and university presidents. You and the senior leadership on your campus might consider using the video during student orientation sessions, linking to it when students log on to campus accounts, or broadcasting it on student life television channels.
I appreciate the efforts to address illegal file sharing you have already made on your campus and urge you to add this new resource to your strategy.
Given continuing Big Four efforts to use the likes of EDUCAUSE to try to sue students into becoming compliant (to the corporate bottom line) consumers, it’s an interesting document.
But even more interesting is the video, featuring Penn State president Graham Spanier in a cameo role.
There’s a copy of Campus Downloading here. Replete with such hoary RIAA gems as, “Sharing copyrighted music files is stealing, no different from shoplifting a CD from a store,” we thought it’d make excellent source material for a creative video.
If anyone exercises their talents in that direction, let us know.
(Thanks, H)
Also See:
Graham Spanier - Big Music university shill report, September 21, 2005
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August 23rd, 2006 at 6:14 pm
and yeah, Spanier was a dbag.
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Crazy. Propaganda worthy of the WWII era.
Some noteworthy tidbits of wisdom:
“Look, it’s simple. Unless you get permission, if the music you find on the web is owned by someone else, you can’t share it, download it, or copy it. Period. And in most cases, if it’s free, it’s not legal.”
1. “…in most cases, if it’s free, it’s not legal.” Please elaborate on this point Mr. recording industry college student. Specifically the cases where if it’s free, it is legal.
Jake Roth
Computer Repair Expert (Presumably on RIAA payroll)
“I make a living fixing hard drives that have been totally corrupted, and the number one villain, illegal p2p sites that offer free music. When somone offers you something for free, be suspicious. You don’t want your computer to crash the night before your biggest term paper is due.”
1. Profound. I’d like to see some data that verifies p2p sites are the number one cause of hard drive corruption.
2. I’m surprised that the recording industry is concerned about my hard drive.
3. If Mr. Roth truely makes a living fixing hard drives, wouldn’t more corrupted hard drives make sense for his bottom line?
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:33 pm
This was obviously shot on a campus or in public somewhere. In the background there are recognizible students moving past the area.
This would be classified as an ad wouldn’t it?
If those people in the background that are recognizible, the maker of the film must have in their poccession a model release, if not, then these people have a heck of a case against the RIAA or at least PR firm that made the film for invasion of privacy.
While its not illegal to film in public, it can be an invasion of privacy if used for commerical use, or if the film projects a false image. (such as implying that the people walking through are downloading music illegally).
Time to do some screen caps of the people in the background and see if anyone knows them.
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Order your copy today, lets make sure these dvds are at least as AOL CDs. I need some new coasters…
However they do ask for your phone and email address and they have no privacy notice listed..
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:41 pm
I have never found a virus or “totally corrupting file” in neither the clients or the content. God knows, that anything free has to be a virus.
What a joke….my email is free too! Might as well saying that opening email will give me a virus to destory my hard drive.
Funny they make no comments about the wonderful DRM shit and many times, Sony Root-Kits (speaking off totally corruped hard drives…), that comes with their music. One a small comment about “being able to burn it to a CD”, which many times is limitied or is not a ablitiy with DRM
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:13 pm
I could only endure like 2 minutes of it, it was just too boring.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Just got this via email…
This is a confirmation email to let you know that your order for the Free Campus Downloading DVD has been received. Please expect up to two weeks for delivery.
Thanks.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:50 pm
So I wonder how these corruptions get to p2p? Seems I recall that there were articles here saying that the company Loudeye was seeding trojans that worked through a hole in the licensing scheme to get them into peoples computers. They were also responsible for the fake files and suspected of additionally adding viruses to the mix on sites like Kazaa. I would think I know just where those corruptions sources originated from.
Mysteriously, all sorts of free music sites popped up on the Internet about the same time as Napster went down and yet again about the time that Audiogalaxy went down. It was reported that many gave you things you wouldn’t want. How unusual that only days after the closure, these sites were up and running. (shrugs) I guess I’m just a conspiracy theorist.
Then again one doesn’t need to go to p2p applications with “respectable” corporations like Sony helping out in the security department.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:11 am
Great Video!!!! God I love a good comedy!!!!!!
August 27th, 2006 at 8:02 am
lawl they should come over here in the netherlands
wtf virusses and spyware … get some protection