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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. Have you tried by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1, Troll
    Have you tried selling out the first student caught and making an example of them?

    Ok, try that and get back to me. I wanna see how this pans out.

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    --Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
  2. Re:Explain how to set up a local p2p network by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Informative? Since when did advising someone to facilitate illegal activity become "informative?" Silly moderator.

    Listen up, chum. The peer-to-peer sense of "sharing" music is illegal. Period. Making a copy of somebody else's music is illegal. Providing somebody with copies of your own music is illegal. Conducted in sufficient volume, these acts can add up to a felony.

    And facilitating the commission of a felony is itself felonious activity.

    So follow this AC's advice IF AND ONLY IF you want your university to be responsible not only for dealing with RIAA take-down requests, but also for felony charges related to the widespread violation of copyrights using university-sanctioned services.

    The right answer here is not to tell your students how to be more clever little criminals. The right answer is to tell them how to share their music legally. Print up a pamphlet about what the rules surrounding copyright are, and why they're important, and what the penalties can be for breaking them. Include information about how to legally share music. (Hint: copying it isn't okay.)

    Don't solicit a felony from your kids. That would be Bad.

  3. Re:At my university... by rf600r · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

    Because, if you allow other to steal what you have stolen, it's no longer stealing. I get it now.