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Rosen, Valenti Warn Colleges About P2P

Posted by timothy on from the oh-and-have-you-met-our-lawyer dept.

fini writes "The RIAA and MPAA just sent a letter to 2,300 colleges or so, asking to crack down on P2P. Juicy nugget: 'Not only is piracy of copyrighted works illegal, it can take up a significant percentage of a university's costly bandwidth.' Also mentioned, some quasi-FUD on security issues. Six higher-ed honchos also sent a concurring letter. From the RIAA website, here's the story and the letters (PDF only). Mentioned as examples of model policies: Drake University, UNC Chapel Hill and University of Michigan . Interestingly enough, there is no threatening 'or else' stuff in those letters. Not yet..."

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  1. Perfect People To Tell... by Shuh · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    College is where people are taught to turn off their minds and subscribe to politically-correct orthodoxy, so shearing the sheep at the shearing station is the right tack for Valenti et al.

  2. you're an asshole by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    God forbid students use the bandwidth to actually learn or do research. Lets see what you say when your paper is due tomorrow and pages are timing out because a handful of people are saturating the connection.

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  3. Slashdot bias by Valar · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Come on now. I know we don't like the RIAA, but do we really have to include the "they havn't done x...yet" line in every story. Did it ever occur to anyone here that maybe the reason they didn't do it in the first place is that they don't want to do it. That's right, maybe they don't want to sue everybody! Maybe they are just defending what they beleive is their rights, the same way we all defend our right to privacy, etc..
    Give the bias a rest, please.

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