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..."

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Let it go, dude...

[scubacuda]

I'm still trying to figure out why they reject all my submissions. :/

Re:My Alma Mater told RIAA to shove it

[DarkVein]

In fact, I would testify that the ability to "try before you buy" has led to my purchasing several CDs that I normally would not have even known about, let alone bought.

To the RIAA's point of view, that very thing costs them money, because you should be buying pop-star-of-the-week's CD that was overproduced. They think it costs them money because instead of turning a 90% profit, they'll only turn a 60% profit on your alternative choice. You've just cost the RIAA 40% of the cover price of the pop CD, and you're now a thief.

I fucking LOVE, RIAA's... uh... logic.

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