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Uni Students Slammed For Music Swapping
jomaree writes "The SMH Online reports that Sony, EMI and Universal will be in the Federal Court today, in an attempt to stop students using uni computers to swap music files. Michael Speck, the director of Music Industry Piracy Investigations, is quoted as follows: 'And we're not talking about one track here, one track there,' he said. 'We're talking piracy, significant examples of piracy.' By contrast, Sydney Uni says it knows of one student with a handful of files on a website, which does actually sound quite a bit like one track here, one track there."
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Come find me, RIAA. I have about 700 mp3s on my computer.
Be prepared for a legal battle.
Be warned: you sue me for piracy, I'll countersue for 17 years of extortion.
We should be able to do whatever we want with the information on our computers and on our networks.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
In this context it could mean university, United States, uniform etc. What the hell.
First the college student would have to get the video card and mouse working properly (no trivial task). Then, use a floppy disk to get the ethernet card drivers installed. If they managed to get past that step, they would still have to compile the P2P software. (As we know, almost nothing that you download every successfully compiles). Linux software is rarely (ever?) distributed in a user-friendly precompiled format, so the student can't go that route either.
After a while, the student will just give up and go back to smoking grass or whatever it is that college students do these days.
All in all, it's a virtual impossibility that anyone using Linux could figure out how to swap files, therefore, making all university students install Linux is the answer.
In Australia (and probably most other places), it's a very common abbreviation.
Nope, not in most other places. Doesn't say much about Australia, does it? Idiots.
Do we have to keep dragging the piracy issue out every five minutes? It's piracy, even if it is one song here, one song there, it's still damn illegal. It's simple, DON'T PIRATE. There is PLENTY of FREE, LEGALLY DOWNLOADABLE music (go to mp3.com for God's sake!) There is no excuse for it. COPYRIGHTS are RIGHTS. Therefore, the COPYRIGHT HOLDER gets to decide how copies are distributed, not anybody else. UGH.
evil adrian
The actual concern is *how are these people figuring out that the traded music can't be traded in the first place?* Are they going after everyone with MP3s on their webpage? Are they going after everyone with MP3s on their home directory? Or is it everyone with MP3s on their computer? I'm sure each and everyone of this universities has a TOS document, and it's probably ok for the sysadmins to search the user's home directories, but I can't imagine any sane TOS which states that it's ok for netadmins to search your box. It's ok if they find out using publicly available information, like, say, via a KaZaa client. But it's definitely not ok if they actively search the user's box.
From the article, the president of the NSW (?) Council for Civil Liberties is quoted saying "the focus of these organisations should be on people who are running or pirating music for clear commercial benefit [...]" No, sorry, you are dead wrong. They will go after whoever they please and whatever is easier to search and target at first. If that's student at universities, so be it. It will show that these people are serious about getting offenders to court. Of course they should be working on the bigger fishes in parallel, but that doesn't give the students the right to ignore copyright law. As for commercial benefit, at US$8 per CD, with 12 songs per CD, a collection of 2000 songs (not uncommon) is worth over US$1300. That's US$1300 that the students aren't shelling out. If that's not commercial benefit, I don't know what is. If you think that kind of money is peanuts, multiply by 10. That's 20 thousand songs, at 5 MB per song, 100 GB. More than once, people on this forum have bragged about their 100 GB MP3 collections, so it's not unthinkable nor undoable. This is over then thousand US dollars. I can't seriously call that peanuts.
You have several choices:
* Stop doing it
* Trade songs for which you have permission to do so
* Change the laws
The last two are of course, not mutually exclusive. The first one is a requirement until the last happens. It's really not that hard. The only ones who are going to see a loss from this train of action are the artists who won't get the pitty royalties for their work. Bad luck, next time look for a producer that doesn't enslave you like the one you have right now.
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Account? The point would be... ?
15 $ for a cd is crap.
...and the RIAA won't be able to find you.
to type university?
How much money did you contribute to the Republican party last year?
Stephen
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