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University of Wisconsin-Madison Bucks RIAA
stephencrane informs us of an interesting development at UW Madison. The school, along with many others, has been sent "settlement letters" by the RIAA with instructions to forward them to particular students (or other university community members) that the RIAA believes guilty of illegal filesharing. The letters order the assumed filesharers to identify themselves and to pay for the content they are supposed to have "pirated." The university has sent a blanket letter to all students, reiterating the school's acceptable use policies, but has refused to forward individual letters without a valid subpoena. This lawyer's blog reproduces the letter. The campus newspaper has some coverage on the university's stance.
"Perhaps because it runs os x?"
Probably run by that idiot Mac zealot who did the pointless "hack my mac" (and DoS my employer's network in the process) contest a while ago.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
Well, reading a lot of the responses I can say that moral has hit an all new low.. Why do people always bitch about RIAA even though they know that downloading/sharing music/movies without paying is just plain criminal.. How would you like it if you made a movie or music and everybody is just copying it without you getting anything for in return.. It would be like going to work, but not getting payed.. If you think the record/movie-industrie is putting out trash, then don't buy it, if you think they are asking outrageous sums of money for it, then don't buy it. but don't go listening/watching it illegally.. Movies and Music is still a luxuryproduct.. Don't go around trying to think up excuses for your illegal/immoral behaviour.. You don't go out stealing a car because you think it's too expensive to buy. And because it's easy to get a movie/music illegal doesn't make it right.. Also in my experience (as having been a student myself) students have enough money to go buy music/movies, but they rather spend it on drugs,alcohol and parties.. So don't go bitching about RIAA/MPAA/whatever who only try to protect what is legally theirs (or at least their clients).. And since the 'customer' doesn't give a rat's ass about how they get their stuff, the RIAA/MPAA have to resort to these kind of methods.. Remember it's the customer him/herself who is responsible for the whole problem, not the companies, they only try to get their investments back (and hee, it's business not a charity)..