Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Massive Increase in RIAA Copyright Notices

Posted by Soulskill on from the harnessing-the-power-of-spam dept.

According to Wired, universities in the US are experiencing a "20-fold increase" in the number of takedown notices from the RIAA in the last ten days. Indiana University reports 80 notices a day, but they say their traffic hasn't increased significantly over the same time period. It will be interesting to see if the affected schools join the legal battle against the RIAA, or cave under the increased pressure. "University of California at Berkeley's chief information officer Shel Waggener confirmed he'd heard of the spikes and suggested there was a political purpose driving them. 'Public universities are in a unique position since the industry puts pressure on us through state legislatures to try to impose what are widely considered to be draconian content monitoring measures and turn us into tech police forces in support of a specific industry,' Waggener said. The RIAA is also backing legislation in states such as Illinois and Tennessee that would require schools that get a certain number of notices to begin installing deep packet monitoring equipment on their internet and intranets, according to Luker."

5 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It seems to me... by hvm2hvm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Lose=misplace something, defeat, etc.
    Loose=something not tight, not restrained, etc.
    Not trying to flame or bitch about anything, just trying to put an end to this spelling error.

    --
    ics
  2. Re:It seems to me... by Stanislav_J · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't waste your time...anyone who has reached adulthood misspelling a word is probably never going to change. A Freshman English professor once said: "If someone has reached the age of 18 utterly convinced that the possessive form of the pronoun 'it' is formed with an apostrophe, nothing you do will ever dissuade them from the notion."

    --
    "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer
  3. Re:It seems to me... by electrictroy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Give them an 'F'.

    They'll learn quickly.

    --
    The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
  4. Re:It seems to me... by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's alway's time for people's to learn the proper use's of word's and punctuation's.

    --
    "But this one goes to 11!"
  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion