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Do RIAA Demands Violate FERPA Protections?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Battle of Acronyms by jeorgen · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ok, so I didn't follow the link, but just reading the headline "Do RIAA Demands Violate FERPA Protections?", it just feels like the powerful full bodied upper case acronym RIAA has been challenged by a new kid on the block, the FERPA.

    FERPA has less redundancy in it's structure with four unique letters, against the unnecessary duplication of the "A"'s at the end of the RIAA.

    FERPA has a more aggressive to feel to it with all the usual F* connotations and the spiffy "P" giving it rhythm. I think it stands a chance.

    /jeorgen

  2. Re:Media is already too expensive! by dbazile · · Score: 4, Funny
    (snip) ...some of them will unfortunately steal it.
    Gasp! College students are stealing things? No wonder the RIAA is mad at them... They hate the competition. :)
  3. Re:Media is already too expensive! by silne · · 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.

  4. Re:Badly Writen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And considering your topic should've been titled "Poorly Written"...I don't think you should be one to talk here. =P