RIAA Wins In Court Against UW Madison

Billosaur writes "A judge has ordered the University of Wisconsin-Madison to turn over the names and contact information for the 53 UW-M students accused of file sharing over the university's networks by the RIAA. 'U.S. District Judge John Shabaz signed an order requiring UW-Madison to relinquish the names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Media Access Control addresses for each of the 53 individuals.' The ruling came as no surprise to the university, which had previously rejected the request of the RIAA to hand out their settlement letters to alleged copyright violators on their campus. The school feels the RIAA will have a hard time tracking down who did the file-sharing anyway, as the IP addresses the RIAA has for the violations may be mapped to computers in common areas, making it difficult to determine just which people may have made the downloads."

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Re:Where's your 'haha' tag now?

[Overly Critical Guy]

It is. Has been for some time now- ever since the US government decided to try to create one world currency only loosely linked to a commodity instead of strongly linked (the fiat petrodollar).

Money is an obsolete way of keeping track of wealth? Then why is it still in use? Did you pay for the computer you're typing on, and do you receive paychecks or student loan money? If money is obsolete, the answer to both questions would be no. But it's not, is it?

What a load of goofy, leftist crap. Money isn't obsolete and never will be. The capitalist free market is how nature works. Your "outdated business model" argument is really a red herring to justify piracy so that you feel better about the ethical nature of your activities. "I'm not ripping off artists. My actions are just a result of an outdated business model! Whew, now that I'm off the hook, time to download the latest Bad Plus album so I don't have to pay them for their work."