University of Washington Will Aid RIAA

Several readers let us know that the University of Washington has announced that it will pass on RIAA settlement offer letters to students identified, presumably by IP address, as suspected file sharers. "The notices say offending students have 20 days to settle with the association by paying it about $3,000 to $5,000 or be taken to court without possibility of a settlement." The Vice Provost for Student Life sent an email to all students saying, "The University has been notified by the RIAA that we will be receiving a number of these early settlement letters. After careful consideration, we have decided to forward the letters to the alleged copyright violators."

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Re:WSU's RIAA policy.

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Thus barked the Huskie.

The reason WSU, and every other university on the planet, has that little part of their computer service is to create immunity if some dumbass code monkey decides to haxx0r a DOD gibson or trade shots of himself violating a 9-year-old. It's not to violate your civil rights, it's to keep the university from being sued out of existence.

Keep on studying for your Comparative Ethnic Studies major or whatever. And enjoy that thirteen grand a semester, you Huskie bitch.