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RIAA Apologizes for Incorrect Infringement Notice

Posted by timothy on from the oopsie dept.

theradixhunter writes "News.com is reporting that the RIAA has apologized to the Pennsylvania State University for sending a threatening letter making an incorrect allegations of copyright violations. It appears that the automated system that the RIAA uses picked the term "Usher" and the extenstion ".mp3" on an FTP site hosting the work of Professor Emeritus Peter Usher and falsely assumed that the files were songs by the musician Usher. The university accepted the apology saying "that this was an honest mistake by the recording industry" and Spokesman Tysen Kendig said Penn State "remains committed to working closely with the RIAA"."

4 of 483 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Like MS Office vs OpenOffice.org by Gortbusters.org · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Iraq anyone?

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    Free your mind.
  2. Re:A Small Victory, Perhaps... by AftanGustur · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Hey, it's like Iraq... attack first, find no weapons of mass destruction, and apologize later! It's almost laughable! ... if it wasn't so scary.

    You are forgetting that having WMS wasn't sufficient enough reason to attack Iraq. The USA claimed that
    1) Iraq Had WMD
    2) Iraq had very friendly ties with terror groups
    3) Iraq was ready to give WMD to those terror groups.

    So, even if they find WMD, they still have to proove 2) and 3) to justify the war ...

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  3. Re:A Small Victory, Perhaps... by hdparm · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    No, he is forgetting

    4. ***

    5. Profit!

    That's what this was all about.

  4. Re:A Small Victory, Perhaps... by Tim+Doran · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Don't forget:

    4) We must free the Iraqi people!

    ...so in addition to proving points 1-3, they must establish a free society with the full support of the "free" Iraqis. They didn't have much luck with that in Afghanistan.