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CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda

Posted by timothy on from the down-to-earth dept.

jsc writes "On Sunday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article by Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, stating that university students are hijacking Internet2 to pirate copyrighted works, and schools who don't actively combat file-sharing are teaching their students bad values like "acceptance of theft". The Post-Gazette didn't let Sherman get away with it, though... Today they published a letter to the paper from Roger Dannenberg, a professor of Computer Science and Music at Carnegie Mellon University, reminding everyone how past/present behavior of the RIAA and its members is an even worse model of values..."

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  1. Full text of rebuttal.... by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I'm rubber, you're glue."

  2. Re:YAIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shut up, Hitler.

  3. Robin Hood-Rebound. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "No, he's saying people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

    People who live in rubber houses shouldn't either.

  4. Cop Killer: Brought to you by the RIAA by MacDork · · Score: 5, Funny
    I got my brain on hype.
    Tonight'll be your night.
    I got this long-assed knife,
    and your neck looks just right.
    My adrenaline's pumpin'.
    I got my stereo bumpin'.
    I'm 'bout to kill me somethin'
    A pig stopped me for nuthin'!


    Cop killer, better you than me.
    Cop killer, f**k police brutality!
    Cop killer, I know your mama's grievin'
    (f**k her)
    Cop killer, but tonight we get even.

    Yeah, it's those damned colleges that are corrupting the moral values of America's youth while the RIAA stands for all that is just and good.

    1. Re:Cop Killer: Brought to you by the RIAA by AoT · · Score: 5, Funny

      I forgot about that shit. I am going to go down load it now.

      --
      A blog about stuff.
  5. Re:YAIA by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've never understood that rule - pointing out weaknesses gets YOU no points, it might remove his, but you won't win unless you can actually out-argue one of his points rather than just discrediting them

    On the topic of discrediting, I think we should remember that Anonymous Cowards have been, historically, the perpetrators of countless GNAA recruitment campaigns, goatse stealth links, and ad hominem attacks. Anonymous Cowards have posted misogynist and anti-semitic attacks of horrifying proportions, and as a general rule are unsavoury characters.

    So clearly your point has no foundation.

  6. Re:Unreadable by FriedTurkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did anyone else find this rebuttal just rambling and boring? He didn't do a lot of rebutting, just yammering all over the map about things only tangentially related to the topic.

    Hello...he is a college professor. Did you go to college? College professors never actually say anything useful.

    I am not reading the rebuttal. I just picked up a syllabus and I will show up for the exams.