College Demands RIAA Pay Up For Wasting Its Time

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 22, 2007 @05:57AM from the me-next-me-next dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We've already seen the University of Wisconsin tell the RIAA to go away, but the University of Nebaska has gone one step further: it's asking the RIAA to pay up for wasting its time with the silly demand to push students into paying up. The spokesperson for the University also notes that since they constantly rotate IP addresses and have no need to hang onto that information for very long, they simply cannot help the RIAA. They have no clue who was attached to which IP address at the time the RIAA is complaining about."

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Re:uncle sam (will) say so by daveschroeder · 2007-03-22 06:23 · Score: 5, Informative

Uh, CALEA mandates technical mechanisms for providing information to law enforcement when required by a court order, so that things like wiretaps of VoIP phones or intercepting electronic communications can, you know, actually be done when necessitated by a court order.

It was also passed in 1994 (i.e., not under Bush), and isn't new (though the deadline for compliance is May 2007).