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A Look at The RIAA's War Against College Students
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "p2pnet.net has put together a fascinating retrospective on the RIAA's war against college students, commenced February 28, 2007. The campaign is described as one to 'force "consumers" to buy what they're told to buy — corporate "content," as the Big 4 call their formulaic outpourings.' In a scathing indictment not only of the major record labels, but of those schools, administrators, and educators who have yet to take a stand against it, Jon Newton reviews a number of landmark moments in the 11-month old 'reign of terror'. They include the announcement of the bizarre 'early settlement' sale, the sudden withdrawal of a case in which a 17 year old Texas high school student had been subpoenaed while in class during school hours to attend a deposition the very next day during his taking of a standardized test, the call by Harvard law professors for the university to fight back when and if attacked, and the differing reactions by other schools."
This new editor is really off to a rousing start, with one of the most pointless Ask Slashdot's ever, followed by something that's moronic even by New York Country Lawyer's rather ambitious standards of moron.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Thanks Mods! You dutifully wasted your mod points like I wanted you to do. Now appease me again by modding this down too! NIGGER!
yeah..big business is making the citizens steal from them! how dare they want defend themselves against having their product stolen. everything should be free...and stealing should be a right! we should all just open up our houses and bank accounts and let citizens take whatever they want...that's how the world should operate man! whatever we do to make a living should just be up for grabs. if we make something and someone takes it...that's fine. if we work and our bosses decide just to take our work and not pay us for it...that's fine. peace out and groove on.