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RIAA Targets LAN Filesharing at Universities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stop-sharing dept.

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."

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  1. The RIAA should just cut to the chase by miskatonic+alumnus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  2. Re:I have my own network by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, your girlfriend funds terrorism

  3. Re:Download while you still can by l3prador · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean you downloaded her?

  4. Re:Download while you still can by audacity242 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:How do they know by StingRay02 · · Score: 5, Funny
    C'mon, now, let's face facts. There are really only three possible ways they decided who to send their threats to.

    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.