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RIAA Targets New Colleges, Still Avoids Harvard

Posted by Zonk on from the back-up-off-of-the-uw-if-you-don't-mind dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Billboard reports that the RIAA has filed its eighth round of 'early settlement' letters to twenty-two colleges. Continuing its practice of avoiding Harvard, the RIAA's new round does not include any letters to that institution, where certain law professors have counseled resistance to the RIAA and told the RIAA to 'take a hike'. The unlucky institutions on the receiving end of the 403 new letters include Arizona State University (35 pre-litigation settlement letters), Carnegie Mellon University (13), Cornell University (19), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (30), Michigan State University (16), North Dakota State University (17), Purdue University — West Lafayette and Calumet campuses (49), University of California — Santa Barbara (13), University of Connecticut (17), University of Maryland — College Park (23), University of Massachusetts — Amherst and Boston campuses (52), University of Nebraska — Lincoln (13), University of Pennsylvania (31), University of Pittsburgh (14), University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire, Madison, Milwaukee, Stevens Point, Stout and Whitewater campuses (62)."

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  1. 403 Error: by creativeHavoc · · Score: 5, Funny

    403 new letters
    I accidently associated the 403 letters with the 403 error, and thought it was some geeky way of describing them, haha. 403 letter: Forbidden You may not download our musics!
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    insight through the mind
  2. Dangerous move... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cornell University (19), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (30), Michigan State University (16) They should be careful. Didn't they hear that MIT students are Fearless, bomb-wielding, genetic-mutant creating hacking terrorists?
    1. Re:Dangerous move... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And that MIT is located right next to Harvard...

      Correction: Harvard is located right next to MIT.

  3. Re:This only means the RIAA has no case by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Following a shipwreck a lawyer, priest, and newspaper reporter were stuck in a raft close to shore, but in waters clearly infested by sharks. After many hours of miserable huddling the lawyer screamed "I can't take it any more!", dove into the water and swam towards shore. The others shouted protests, but to everyone's surprise the sharks parted and let the man swim safely to land.

    "It's a miracle!" exclaimed the priest.

    "No... professional courtesy", explained the journalist.

    And that also explains why the RIAA isn't going after the Harvard kids.