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RIAA Afraid of Harvard
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report on p2pnet.net, the RIAA's latest anti-college round of "early settlement" letters targets 7 out of 8 Ivy League schools, but continues to give Harvard University a wide berth. This is perhaps the most astonishing display of cowardice exhibited to date by the multinational cartel of SONY BMG, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, and Vivendi/Universal (the "Big Four" record companies, which are rapidly becoming less "big"). The lesson to be drawn by other colleges and universities: "All bullies are cowards. Appeasement of bullies doesn't work. Standing up to bullies and fighting back has a much higher success rate.""
The submitter of the story is Charles Nesson, who is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. See also Wikipedia.
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Whoa, mods, think about this one. GP's a troll, parent is bringing up a good point.
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Everyone is missing the most simple explanation.
Harvard students never download music illegally. So there is nothing to sue for.
And they never go over the speed limit, drink under age at a frat party or cut the tags off their mattresses either.
I guess they're just better then the rest of us:)
So. How do they pay over at the RIAA? Pretty good?
Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.
You mmust be new here.
Why bother suing Harvard students when there are still so many grandmothers, invalids and children to go after?
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer
There's that savvy, educated response I've come to expect around here. I'm a big fan of the "you don't line up with the groupthink, someone must be paying you" bit.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Why are people here so willing to stand up to the bullies at the RIAA, but you won't allow this country to stand up to bullies in the middle east like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (He's the "President" of Iran for those of you who've undergone public education.)
This assumes your teachers stop learning after they started teaching. Good teachers continue to learn, just like their students. The primary difference between teachers and graduates at college is that those who go on to work in the tech sector have to deal with a different problem space - writing software to deadlines and customer specifications for money - than do professors, who are more likely in a research project or two. This breeds different mindsets, but not more or less capable people.
Insightful? Where the hell did that moderation come from?
All I'm seeing is a small-pricked rant that has little bearing on the parent's post.
It's not a bad rant. mind. It has most of the classic requirements. Perhaps Slashdot needs a '+1, Rant' mod option, in recognition of good rants?
bla-bla-bla america is great bla-bla-bla without us, you'd all be communist bla-bla-bla
it is maybe exactly this sort of macho posturing that has made the threats america so valiantly has tried to defend the Free World(tm) against.
Look, no-one likes being lumped in with the rest of their country as one homogeneous, unthinking blob, and I see a lot more people, such as you, defending the USA when it gets criticized than there are people who are ready to defend the individuals who may think differently in any given Arab state, for example. Or every time a 1984 story rolls round about the UK. Or against the 'jokes' on the French.
America is not some shining beacon of diversity that innocently stands by whilst people from other countries decide to irrationally voice their prejudices about it. You have some dangerous, ignorant trends that run through large segments of your society. Most countries do. So: some people don't realize how ignorant they're being when they generalize you? It's the internet, deal with it. Prove them wrong with intelligence and rationality. By reacting as you have you've just confirmed their prejudices.
Stupid people think it's cool. Smart people thinks it's a joke; also cool.