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Do RIAA Demands Violate FERPA Protections?

Posted by timothy on Monday March 17, 2003 @08:40AM from the what-and-let-the-miscreants-get-away dept.

jorr writes "Bob Liu's commentary 'Copyrights: More Work, More Headaches' questions whether the demands from the RIAA violates due process. He states 'According to FERPA, school officials are permitted to access student records but outside organizations like RIAA would need "to comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena."'"

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Re:Media is already too expensive! by silne · 2003-03-17 18:24 · Score: 3, Insightful

The even more unfortunate thing is, the more people steal stuff, the more they use that as a justification for raising the prices.

I don't think it's occurred to them that a significant portion of people don't 'steal' movies on principle, they do it because it's either unavailable locally (not everyone lives in DVD Region 1) or it's unaffordable and therefore they make justifications to themselves.