robertflPremium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL | U of Nebraska to RIAA: here's a bill for the time you're was U of Nebraska to RIAA: here's a bill for the time you're wasting
»www.boingboing.net/2007/03/22/u_···ria.html
The University of Nebraska is so pissed off with the RIAA's outrageous requests to help rat out students who file-share that it has sent the RIAA a bill for the time the University has wasted dealing with the RIAA's demands. Go Corn Huskers!
Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska has told the RIAA that it can't help them identify many of the students accused of file trading. The school's system changes a computer's IP address each time its turned on, and it only keeps this information for month. After that month, the school has no way of associating an IP address with a computer or its user. The RIAA is angry about this, and a spokesman for the group criticized the university for not understanding "the need to retain these records". This is a ridiculous complaint. The university doesn't have a need to retain these records, and there's no reason it should do so out of some obligation to the RIAA. If there were any doubt that the university is really irritated by the RIAA's requests, it has requested that the RIAA pay the university to reimburse its expenses from dealing with this (good luck with that). |
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
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| Slashdot had an interesting thread about the DMCA
»politics.slashdot.org/politics/0···18.shtml
»www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1826/125/
It is DMCA more so then Copyright law that has created such a mess. The main problem with Copyright law is the so called "Micky Mouse extension." Constitution established copyright monopoly protection for a "limited period of time." Limited is now almost a 100 years. DMCA basically undercuts any notion of fair use.
/Tom |
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robertflPremium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL | Just about greed. Why did they allow this to happen. The artist will get even less if this goes through |
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