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whitesmoke
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Registered: Sep 2002
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RIAA sues students

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From cnn.com (April 4, 2003)

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The recording industry is expanding its fight against illegal Internet content swapping by suing four college students for allegedly offering more than 1 million copies of popular music.

In lawsuits filed Thursday in federal courts in New York, New Jersey and Michigan, the Recording Industry of America asked that the sites be shut down and that it be paid maximum damages of $150,000 per song.

The RIAA said the file-sharing systems were being run by students at Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Michigan Technological University. The schools were not named as defendants.

The RIAA said the offenses were akin to those committed by Napster, which was ordered shut down after the courts found it violated musical copyrights.

"These systems are just as illegal and operate in the same manner," RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a statement.

The action reflects a recent trend in which the entertainment industry has become more aggressive in pursuing copyright infringers.

Four entertainment industry groups sent a letter to 2,300 university presidents last year, urging a tough stand on copyright infringement, and in January a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that Verizon Communications Inc. must identify an Internet subscriber suspected of illegally offering more than 600 songs from well known artists. The RIAA had sought the user's identity with a subpoena approved under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

In February, the RIAA joined with the Motion Picture Association of America in sending a six-page brochure to Fortune 1000 corporations that suggested corporate policies and offered a sample memo to employees warning against using company computers to download content from the Web.

The suits allege the students stored thousands of songs on a central server and made them available to students, staff, administrators and others with access to their schools' high-speed Internet networks. The songs could be downloaded using standard Web browsers.

The universities said they were investigating the claims. All the schools have policies prohibiting the use of their computer networks for copyright infringement.

Princeton spokeswoman Lauren Robinson-Brown said the school is unable to constantly monitor its network, but does take swift action when told of copyright infringement. The school removed the site within 24 hours of being notified, she said.

The legal action irritated Michigan Technological University President Curtis Tompkins, who said he wished the music industry had contacted the school, as he said it had done in the past when copyright infringements were discovered.

"Had you followed the previous methods established in notification of a violation, we would have shut off the student and not allowed the problem to grow to the size and scope that it is today," Tompkins wrote Thursday in a letter to the RIAA's Sherman.

The RIAA said the massive nature of the alleged offenses required a strong response.

"This is not an instance of an individual student simply offering up some sound recordings on a Web site," said Matthew Oppenheim, senior vice president of business and legal affairs for the RIAA.

In the Michigan case, Oppenheim said, the student ran a network offering more than 650,000 music files for downloading, in addition to 1,866 songs from his own personal collection.

"It would be our hope that universities are aware of what is happening on their networks," he said. "The onus shouldn't rest on any given copyright holder to provide a warning to an individual when something of this size and scope is happening."


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They are sueing that kid for billions of dollars e.g. more profit margins than the riaa has had in like the past 20 years *combined*.

Translation : we are money mongering price fixing son of a bitches who artificially inflate market value of our products to serve our own greedy ends, "teh" undercutting of our business model will not be tolerated, and we will line the pockets of the proper politicians to have it enforced. :gets sick:.... Artificial scarcity is a very very funny and ironic thing.


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whiskers
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give or take some repetitions, live sets, uncopyrighted tunes, I own RIAA something around 650 million dollars. come and get it, wankers, my wallet is empty (literally).

reminds me of george orwell's 1984.


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decibel08
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Originally posted by whiskers
give or take some repetitions, live sets, uncopyrighted tunes, I own RIAA something around 650 million dollars. come and get it, wankers, my wallet is empty (literally).

reminds me of george orwell's 1984.


haha word... if we take $150,000 per song * ~8200 songs (no livesets included) + lets say $300,000 per movie * 155 divx movies =

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$ 1,276,500,000

i better start saving now



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RIAA is so stupid...they're trying to give out the message right now that the people who upload and start networks are the ones they are going after, as to kind of scare the uploaders. They just don't realize that more and more people come in as the old ones are leave...But the dumbest thing is i still don't understand why they havn't started an online music service. If anye site could supply the newest trance to be downloaded on a fast connection at a reasonable price, I would certainly agree with that.


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the RIAA r just a bunch of brown nosers


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Magimaster
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fuck the RIAA!

they need to get pwnz0r3d again.


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Registered: Mar 2002
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quote:
Originally posted by decibel08
haha word... if we take $150,000 per song * ~8200 songs (no livesets included) + lets say $300,000 per movie * 155 divx movies =

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$ 1,276,500,000

i better start saving now



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King_Mack
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theres no way these guys will get charged that much. Worst they will get is an year or two in jail(maybe up to 5) plus community sevice.


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Tranc3
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US

Yar we set up a similar file-sharing network at our school...I was one of the admins, hehe. We were smart about it though, we banned *.*.*.* ip addresses and only allowed our school's i.p. addresses in, that way it was restricted to people living on-campus only. Bwahaha, RIAA hasn't found us yet and never will, as they will never be able to gain access.

But yes, on the note of how much I owe, music, movies, and programs, I'd say it's easily around $500,000 to $750,000 at current U.S. market prices, not at that crazy $150,000 per song.

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matt2kjones
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yea i read this on winamp.com earlier on

the riaa suck i must admit

be reasonable, i mean 20,000 fair enough, but that much?

they must think everyone has loads of money like they do

money hungry ******s no offence


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hispazn
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quote:
Originally posted by benfica88
RIAA is so stupid...they're trying to give out the message right now that the people who upload and start networks are the ones they are going after, as to kind of scare the uploaders. They just don't realize that more and more people come in as the old ones are leave...But the dumbest thing is i still don't understand why they havn't started an online music service. If anye site could supply the newest trance to be downloaded on a fast connection at a reasonable price, I would certainly agree with that.


I must agree, I wouldnt mind an online music service either...


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