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College Demands RIAA Pay Up For Wasting Its Time

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. U of Nebraska = Haven for Hackers? by SeaDour · · Score: 0, Troll

    If they don't track IP addresses, what's to stop the students from trying to break into, say, the registar office's servers to alter their grades?

  2. What's up with the BlueRay Slashdot Ads. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot,

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