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RIAA Targets LAN Filesharing at Universities
segphault writes "The RIAA has sent letters to 40 university presidents in 25 separate states informing them that students are engaging in filesharing on their campuses using the local network. Apparently, the RIAA wants to get universities to use filtering software on their networks to detect student filesharing. The RIAA did not disclose the methodology they used to determine that filesharing is occuring on those local networks, but it probably didn't involve asking permission. The article goes on to predict that the RIAA will eventually try to get the government to require use of anti-filesharing filtering technologies at universities."
It looks like they will soon send messages to parents informing them that their kids are engaging in filesharing amongst themselves at their homes using the home network.
and demand that Congress pass a law requiring every person with a social security number to purchase 5 DRM loaded cd's per month, and staple their receipts on form 1040 come April 15th. After all, the government requires us to support the insurance companies by purchasing auto insurance. Why not entertainment too? I mean, EVERYBODY is guilty of pirating music anyway, right?
Yes, your girlfriend funds terrorism
The RIAA will be going after Microsoft for allowing people to share files on their computer over a "network neighborhood". After which, hard drive manufactures will be sent letters informing them that their products are used in the distribution of copyrighted material and must include anti-file sharing technologies. Tesla will be woken from the grave and bitch-smacked for his accomplishments in electro-magnetism, and finally they will sue God for giving humans ears in which they can listen to stolen songs.
Wow, that slope was slippery...
shhhh!
The first rule of usenet is that you do not talk about usenet!
My biggest fear is that services like easynews are going to bring a lot of heat down on my file sharing garden of eden.
Or via spyware-infected music CDs... Nah....
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
when they outlaw loudly distributing music over the atmospheric network. Thus I will finally be able to get some sleep...
THIS is what's next.
for a minute there, i lost myself...
You mean you downloaded her?
There have been rumours for many years of women who read slashdot. And I have come to tell you the truth, yes, in fact, we do exist.
And, yeah, the ex-boyfriend reads slashdot. So yeah, those rumours about male slashdot readers having girlfriends? Also occasionally true.
1. They took a list of all the universities in the country and, using a complicated algorithm and selection process, chose every tenth one from it.
2. They said screw the algorithm and just took the first forty names. I didn't RTFA, but it wouldn't surprise me if all the school's names started with A.
3. They chucked darts at a map.
My money's on number 3.
It truly was. Never forget.
April 21, 2006 @ 11:59:00 PM
What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex!
- Mandatory helmets and helmet cams to ensure that no one lends a copyrighted cd to his/her friend
- Mandatory mic implants to ensure that noone murmurs a copyrighted song while going to work and back
- Mandatory in-house representatives to ensure copyrighted lullabies are not sung to babies
- Mandatory arse cams to ensure that noone does sharing while 'online shitting'
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