Spring Break
What Happens If The RIAA Targets You
Andrew Peters
Issue date: 3/6/08 Section: News
"I was kinda pissed off," he said. "Why don't they warn people before? I wish they would have sent a warning first, a letter of notice every year when you move back in or something."
"If I'd have found this out - the potential of [being caught] - I'd never have done it," Dave said.
UConn actually did send a warning e-mail in August.
"If you engage in peer-to-peer file sharing activity which infringes the copyright in [music, movies, software or games], the university strongly urges you to discontinue that activity immediately," read the message from Elaine David, director of IT security, policy and quality assurance.
Nevertheless, Dave and 24 other students were found to be in violation of RIAA copyrights, raising the total number of RIAA citations at UConn to 84, according to the release.
"You've got to learn from your mistakes," Dave said, then reconsidered. "Or people downloading off of you."
Contact Andrew Peters at
Andrew.Peters@UConn.edu.
"If I'd have found this out - the potential of [being caught] - I'd never have done it," Dave said.
UConn actually did send a warning e-mail in August.
"If you engage in peer-to-peer file sharing activity which infringes the copyright in [music, movies, software or games], the university strongly urges you to discontinue that activity immediately," read the message from Elaine David, director of IT security, policy and quality assurance.
Nevertheless, Dave and 24 other students were found to be in violation of RIAA copyrights, raising the total number of RIAA citations at UConn to 84, according to the release.
"You've got to learn from your mistakes," Dave said, then reconsidered. "Or people downloading off of you."
Contact Andrew Peters at
Andrew.Peters@UConn.edu.
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Ed Tomassi
posted 3/06/08 @ 12:34 PM EST
I would fight the RIAA!! To me, as long as your not selling the music, file sharing should be legal. Limewire or other peer-to-peer sources are no different then a library. (Continued…)
bbb
posted 3/06/08 @ 2:20 PM EST
UConn should tell the RIAA to pound sand and STAND UP FOR THEIR STUDENTS.
Other Universities have refused to tell the RIAA the names of students they accuse of filesharing. (Continued…)
King8654
posted 3/06/08 @ 5:22 PM EST
Obviously you dont read any P2P news or recent events of the past year or so. Taking the RIAA to court has only worked in a couple of cases, with the defendents being older single mothers being represented by the EFF at no charge, and they come out lucky. (Continued…)
Andrew Wise
posted 3/06/08 @ 6:57 PM EST
Go to your student council, get them active, and then have them go up the chain to the University President.
If a University is publicly known to rat out their students and not protect them, it doesn't bode too well for their ability to win-over prestigious new students, faculty, etc. (Continued…)
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posted 3/07/08 @ 2:29 PM EST
Every student at UCONN should get a router & leave it open/unencrypted.
This way, there is no way of knowing who, out of the whole student body, downloaded what from whom! What is the RIAA gonna do then sue 25,000 students????
Justine Clarke
posted 3/12/09 @ 6:20 AM EST
That looks like lots of fun. When I was in college we didn't had so many fun activities.
Monica Ackers
posted 3/16/09 @ 9:14 AM EST
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