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Univ. Help Desk Staffer Extorts Over Copyright Violations

Posted by timothy on from the judge-jury-and-accounts-payable dept.

McGruber writes "The Atlanta fishwrap is reporting that an University of Georgia 'IT security support' employee was accusing students of copyright violations, then demanding money to clear their names. Sounds like he's been caught stealing the RIAA business model."

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  1. Re:What are you doing here? by russotto · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mods on crack as usual. GP (modded "Troll") is correct (according to the article, anyway) and parent (modded "Informative") is wrong.

    Dehelean was employed in IT security support, according to police. He reportedly was in charge of monitoring illegal music downloads on university computers.

  2. Local copy by richwmn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Article in the Athens (home of UGa) paper -- http://onlineathens.com/stories/020310/uga_558085836.shtml.

  3. Re:It should have been patented! by Wowsers · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is why we need business method patents!

    The Mafia would have prior art claims over the RIAA and MPAA.

    --
    Take Nobody's Word For It.
  4. Re:What are you doing here? by dirtyJay · · Score: 4, Informative

    I work on a campus as well, and we do pretty much the same thing. It's not our job to police the students systems, if they want to steal crap virus infected music that's okay with me. But when they do it over our network there's hell to pay. We currently use a 3 strikes policy, we look for specific protocols, not data itself, and if we detect torrent or generic p2p traffic we disable their internet access. Once that happens they need to go to the student IT office to have their systems checked out and any offending apps removed. We always give them the choice not to remove the apps, but we wont allow them on our network until removal is verified. On the 3rd offense they need to set up a meeting with the dean of students to have their access restored. Very rarely does it get this far. On another front, if we detect that type of activity on a staff system they're reprimanded and educated about the risks associated, then fired on the spot if it happens again. We don't do this because of any extortion attempts by the RIAA, for us its purely a security and bandwidth based decision.

  5. Re:University Legal Services? by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you know somebody who has Lexis-Nexis access, the article written by the Syracuse Post-Standard is there and that article went national via the AP. Slashdot picked up that story, but trying to find something from 2002 is nearly impossible these days.