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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. Re:Rationalizations by argoff · · Score: 1, Troll

    If I spend MY time, MY money, and MY talent creating something of value and then I offer it for sale you are NOT entitled to it just because you want it and it's easy to steal. .... If I CHOOSE to give it away you're welcome to it.

    You're RIGHT!! You are entitled to do to your original copy everything and anything you want to. But psst .... COPYING IS NOT STEALING .... Infcat, if you stole my geo metro I think I would be very violated ... but if you want to copy it then hell ... have 10 ... in fact there are 10 million out there ... I am not violated .... it's BULLSHIT MORALITY! Get it. You already CHOOSE to spew it all over the planet ... and now you want to controll how people use information at their disposal ... well too bad, that is your problem, not mine, sorry you got your feelings hurt, but it's NOT STEALING!!!!!

  2. Re:USENET by antiMStroll · · Score: 1, Troll

    Shhhh! Ix-nay on the uality-quay talk! I like Usenet just the way it is, a fountain of the bizarre and unfamiliar. Last thing I want is for it to become another Britney bucket.

  3. Re:Exactly what the RIAA companies stole from us by geekee · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your post is basically using the same argument that a rapist might use to defend himself when caught raping a prostitute. He'd say something like "she had no moral ground to call me a criminal".

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  4. Re:Profit model by sabat · · Score: 0, Troll

    When your vote is worth jack-shit, then your vote is worth jack-shit. You're a feather in the wind: completely meaningless.

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