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RIAA Cracks Down on Internet2 File Sharing

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places dept.

Daverd writes "Hundreds of students at 18 universities nation-wide have had lawsuits filed against them by the RIAA for filesharing over Internet2." The official RIAA Press Release and commentary at MSNBC is also available. From the article: "i2Hub has been seen as a safe haven, and what we wanted to do was puncture that misconception," said Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA. "This has been a subversion of the research purposes for which Internet2 was developed."

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  1. Simple solution by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just don't download music and don't buy it. Most of it is crap and you DON'T need it. Seriously, if the RIAA once be a bunch of bitches about then send a message to them saying that you aren't going to help make their Beverly Hills Mansion payments or help them buy another diamond ring for their many hos.

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  2. How? by mikepaktinat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Im curious as to which university gave them access to sniff internet2 traffic.
    I mean how did they get access to this?

  3. Wait a sec... by cdrudge · · Score: 1, Redundant

    How did they gain access to i2 anyways? I thought it was for educational use, and not for commercial use. Those bastards.

  4. How? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He declined to give details on how the RIAA gathered the data on the individuals who are being sued.

    I thought the I2 network was only accesible from other I2 networks. I also thought these were all at research universities. How would they have legally gathered this data?

  5. well by ch-chuck · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Time to start working on I3.

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  6. something out of whack here.... by UlfGabe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How did they get into the network?

    How were they able to access/monitor other users data and verify it?

    Were they using entrapment to cut in on these kids?

    (ps how fast in INETv.2, because this one day, i d/l'ed knoppix from this german site, and i accidently clicked twice, and i got those 1400megs in 10 seconds flat. It was so scary I clicked again.)

    Glad I live in Canada

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  7. Re:Queue.insert(this); by DustMagnet · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Whoa... there's an Internet 2 now?!?

    They should build a bridge to the origional internet, so we only have one again. Oh, wait they already did. WTF is a second internet?

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  8. Re:RIAA has no moral right to own music anymore by bigmouth_strikes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Flawed logic: -5

    The conclusion "download all you want" isn't really a necessary conclusion of the premises. Copyright infrigement is still illegal, moral rights or not.

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