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MTU President Peeved At RIAA
mcdude writes "The president of Michigan Technological University has responded to the RIAA suit against one of his students, accusing the RIAA of encouraging cooperation with universities but then bypassing those procedures with the current suit. Curtis Tompkins says, 'I am very disappointed that the RIAA decided to take this action in this manner. As a fully cooperating site, we would have expected the courtesy of being notified early and allowing us to take action following established procedures, instead of allowing it to get to the point of lawsuits and publicity.'" Attention universities: lawsuits are your reward for being a "fully-cooperating site". If you missed the lawsuit news, see our earlier story.
Red or White Wine?
Tastes Great or Less Filling?
Lethal Injection or Gas Chamber?
Allow a Univeristy official handle the situation, or let the RIAA file lawsuits?
It ranks right up there....
"Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that, it's called everyone, they meet at the bar."
I went to tech for 4 years and I can say personally that the administration there doesn't care a bit about the students. The only reason that the administration would ever take any kind of action would be if it 1) made them look good or 2) made them money. I would also like to mention that I was one of the first (back in the day when running hotline servers and making money of banner click throughs were all the rage) at tech to get busted by the riaa. Thh whole time the riaa was threatening me with a $15.5 million dollar lawsuit (you can bet my parents were thrilled) the school never did anything except threaten me themselves. As long as i have a soapbox to stand on I would also like to mention that after four years I decided that the faculty was so worthless and underqualified that I best take myself somewhere else cause a degree from tech WONT get you a job unless you want to work in Michigan or Wisconson! I am happy to say that while still degreeless (I'm starting classes again this summer online to finish) I chose to go the certification route and am now a happily employed Systems Administrator as well as running a consulting business on the side. Screw You Tompkins and Janners!