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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Dear RIAA,

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

Dear RIAA(TM),

Fuck you very much for your illegal suppresion of free thought and information. Believe it or not, there is a WORLD of "cool stuff" that is not under copyright, and is available on P2P systems.

There is more to life than the cunt Britney Spears(TM) you push into peoples eardrums.

I'm drinking water every day, 8 glasses full, because one day far far away I'm going to take a really long piss on someone's grave. Care to take a guess whose?

Regards,

World