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Educating Users/Students on Reducing Exposure to the RIAA
An anonymous reader asks: "I work for a medium-sized university (25K students), and have been asked to come up with ideas on how to reduce our exposure to the RIAA. Our head of IT gets 50 to 100 emails from the RIAA every week, complaining about IP addresses where P2P applications offer copyrighted songs for download. We don't want to firewall off P2P applications completely, we just want to get the RIAA off our backs. How do other university IT departments educate students to stop attracting the RIAA's attention? Thanks for any war stories you might be able to share !"
uh, that's gayish; you seem a little bit too eager to bend over for the RIAA.
Drugs have taught an entire generation of American children the metric system.
Let me get this straight. Your students are using your network to commit a crime. (My point here has nothing to do with whether it should be illegal, the point is, it IS illegal.) As an administrator and employee for your univiersity, you are now going around asking people how to help your students commit the crime without getting caught. I just have one question: does your employees realize they have a walking, talking big-ass-lawsuit magnet working for them? If you worked for me, my only hope to mitigate the damage to the university is to be able to say (during discovery) that I fired your ass the second I heard about it, and called every other employee in and told them why I fired you and made it clear, in writing, anyone else tries to pull the same stupid stunt they will be the next to join the unemployent lines.