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Univ. Help Desk Staffer Extorts Over Copyright Violations

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 3, 2010 @03:15AM 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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Re:What are you doing here? by russotto · 2010-02-03 03:29 · 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.