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Massive Increase in RIAA Copyright Notices
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."
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Levity aside, he is at Berkeley. Their views on what is and isn't respectable are rather different than the mainstream. I mean, the town (and hence, University) was named after a guy who rejected the idea that anything actually physical exists.
A statement from someone like that at Berkeley gives me hope that they'll rethink they're tolerance for and cooperation with the RIAA's antics. It wouldn't be difficult for them. Heck, they could assign law students to dealing with the issue and probably do quite well; Berkeley has one of the top ten law schools in the country, by many rankings.
Nope, it is more like a small group of owners fighting millions little thieves. Each one of them can only steal so little, each particular theft is laughable — especially when the little perp is placed next to the giant (and uber-rich) victim. But they are still wrong...
Don't even try to say: "nothing is stolen by copying," — that's quite ridiculous and self-inconsistent (thus automatically wrong).
If the Ten Commandments were a "living document", the "Thou shalt not violate copyrights" would've been found in it by now... It certainly is found there — by Slashdot participants anyway — whenever someone is found to have copied GPL code. Then we are all outrage — as if something were, indeed stolen.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
well said. you are absolutely damned right, but the little thieving kiddies at slashdot cannot compute that taking stuff without paying is wrong, and are incapable of justifying their actions, so they will mod you troll and hope nobody reads it.
pathetic isn't it?