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Rosen, Valenti Warn Colleges About P2P
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..."
Is this considered spam?
Are they dating yet?
"A journey of a thousand lawsuits begins with a single letter."
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
When you Pirate MP3s You're Downloading COMMUNISM
:^)
You need to find better web hosting. The digitalrice IIS garbage sends your index.shtml as application/octet-stream. Most people aren't able to view your pages.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 05:16:35 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 23:10:36 GMT
ETag: "322255ef76d7c11:845"
Content-Length: 11938
But after that garbage comes even more garbage, like this:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
Oh well, it seems like you have nothing to say.
... now the admin at my school is going to get scared and block every port known to man.
Well if this whole thing is to make more money off us, at least they're finally thinking long-term, because I'm in college, and I sure as heck don't have any money to buy their stuff right now!
and she murdered Kurt Cobain.
That would make Courtney Love a somewhat less dirty cunt.
When I went to college the really high-tech people were running 1200 baud dial-up to BBSes.
Ahh, for a Commodore 64, a 1670 modem, and nibbleterm. Those were the days, my friends. Now every college weenie has KaZaA and thinks they're hot stuff. I don't think I paid for any software ever for the C-64, and most of it was swiped at 300 baud or at file sharing parties - we called them GT's (Get Togethers). I don't think I got the 1671 until 1986.
And we used to Phreak MCI and Sprint by hand.
Of course there was the day that the FBI came knocking at my door...
Music sharing? Albums recorded to cassette tape.
Kids today just don't get the finer points of stealing. It's all about instant gratification now. I say, cut the cord and take away their high-speed internet. Let 'em P2P at 300 baud over POTS like we use to.
Valenti needs to stop behind that "businessman" persona and start getting real. I mean, what
kind of self respecting Sicilian threatens others with the law?
Valenti, come out of the closet and start busting some balls man. These freckled white kids
need to see what descipline is suposed to be. Show these motherfucking little bastards WHO is
the daddy.
The RIAA needs its own army of made men to do business.
Oh, come back, proud Canadians
To before you had TV,
No hockey night in Canada,
There was no CBC (Oh, my God!).
In 1812, Madison was mad,
He was the president, you know
Well, he thought he'd tell the British where they ought to go
He thought he'd invade Canada,
He thought that he was tough
Instead we went to Washington....
And burned down all his stuff!
And the White House burned, burned, burned,
And we're the one's that did it!
It burned, burned, burned,
While the president ran and cried.
It burned, burned, burned,
And things were very historical.
And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
Waa waa waah!
In the War of 1812!
Now some hillbillies from Kentucky,
Dressed in green and red,
Left home to fight in Canada,
But they returned home dead
It's the only war the Yankees lost, except for Vietnam
And also the Alamo... and the Bay of... ham.
The loser was America,
The winner was ourselves,
So join right in and gloat about the War of 1812
--- The Arogant Worms
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
Outside of college, I haven't found a whole lot of people who think, or really know the details of any orthodoxy.
Um, I live in a college town. I burst out with a guffaw every time I hear someone make a connection between being a college student, and thinking or being intelligent. I can't help it.
Just make sure I don't have a mouthful of soda if you're going to say something like that :)