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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. Internet2 by americamatrix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have heard the internet2 is amazing...I wish my school had it ;(

  2. Yo0 FAIL it.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Baby Take my

  3. sick of the RIAA stories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jesus Christ, slashdot used to be about software and hardware.

    Now it's overrun with douchebags whose main concern is not being served with a subpoena to talk about their various copyright violations.

    Listen the fuck up tards, until the laws on intellectual property are changed, you won't be able to take shit for free that other people want you to pay for. . .pretty goddamn simple.