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Educating Users/Students on Reducing Exposure to the RIAA

Posted by Cliff on from the keeping-a-low-profile dept.

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 !"

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  1. What I'd do... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " We don't want to firewall off P2P applications completely, we just want to get the RIAA off our backs."

    Find out who the ISP(s?) is(are?) for the RIAA and block them with the firewall.

    (Yeah, I know it won't work, but man that'd sure feel good.)

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  2. Re:At my university... by Orthanc_duo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yay lets all encourage leaching... If your are going to download you should cotribute somthing to the network. If everyone decided to not share anything so as to reduse their bandwidthe there would be nothing on any of the P2P networks.

  3. Hmmm... by shepd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not just forward the message to the student, and tell the RIAA (with a form letter) you've informed them of the complaint, but that you consider yourself a common carrier and that you'll take no action on behalf of the RIAA.

    Seems a fair way to do it to me. Anything else might be underhanded, and would make more work for you. :-)

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    If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
  4. maybe by drDugan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    maybe people should stand up and let it be known that we don't think the existence of laws that make a perversion of economics contribues to a free socety or a working market economy.

    the reality of the p2p black market in music is that the cost of the "music" product is artificailly inflated to hundreds of times the real market value because of the (now eliminated) historical distribution controls in tapes/cd/etc. the cost disparity between the selling price and the market price both CREATED and MAINTAINS the black market. it's not rocket science here folks.

    the ridiculousness of current copyright laws and the teeth of the DMCA are the only thing maintaining the profits by which these people harass everyone else. why should we have special laws to maintain an industry that is now NO LONGER NECCESARY?

    in short, simply tell RIAA and thier "industry" to fuck off and die like any normal, non-innovating dinosaur industry should. stand up & flip the bird. I'm still am waiting to get a CnD from them.

  5. How to stop attracting attention? by ccady · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... 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? ...

    Students keep smoking pot in their dorm rooms. The cops keep telling us it's not legal. How do other universities educate their students in not getting caught?

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    J'aime mieux les méchants que les imbéciles, parce qu'ils se reposent. -- Alexandre Dumas