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RIAA Massively Ramps Up Warning Notices To College Students Over File Sharing
from the last-throes... dept
While the RIAA has been sending threatening notices to colleges about student file sharing for a while now, it seems to have recently stepped up the attack. Various colleges are reporting a rather massive increase in these notices, despite no discernible change in file sharing activity. In some cases, they're suddenly getting as many notices in a day as they used to get in a month. Some universities are also pointing out that they don't see any corresponding activity in their log files that would indicate that industry insiders had actually checked to make sure these files were infringing.
One interesting theory is mentioned in the Wired article above. The RIAA has been using the number of such notices as some sort of indicator of how much piracy is occurring -- and even lobbying for laws that would require any university that got over a certain number of notices to install special filtering/monitoring software. So, by showing an increase, the RIAA can try to show how "necessary" this is, even if the notices are totally bogus. As one person points out in the article, it does not seem at all reasonable to judge how much piracy is occurring (or what actions need to be taken) based on an arbitrary number that is totally under the control of the RIAA.
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They need to stop!
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no more easy street ?
Yeah, looks like the schoolyard bully picking on the easy targets.
The RIAA has had their asses handed to them by several institutions of higher learning. Have they gone back for more ? See how they are avoiding those that defend themselves ?
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What is forgotten
Hopefully they are good laws, and don't mandate elderly euthenasia. Mandated elderly euthenasia for RIAA guys would be sad.
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RIAA the latest spammers
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FAWK YOU RIAA, KISS MY ARSE!
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My school
I do not doubt they are doing this as a way to show how important it is to combat the "piracy" that is going on. It's gotten to the point where our overarching campus IT guys are overwhelmed (where people get shut off, go through the process, get turned back on, and then get turned off again within 10 mins because of a subsequent request that they didn't get to because of the backlog.) and frankly its rather ridiculous.
It almost makes me want to go and fire up Limewire for the first time in 3 years.
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anybody
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Re: anybody
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any idiot can posted cements on here
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Re: My school
Fuck **AA, got 20 movies and who knows how many songs just last night.
HA HA HA...
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Re: They need to stop!
Ubuntu looks great! Holy cow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ
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Bah!
USENET for the w1n!!!
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Re: Some one
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RIAA turning into Spammer?
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How many colleges are there?
Are there any legal restrictions on such a group effort?
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