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- implied, on 11/03/2007, -11/+196Where can I send my bill to the RIAA for wasting my time by reading all these news articles about their ridiculous tactics?
- SlackerCSB, on 10/12/2007, -9/+153You would have just wasted the time fighting over whether the Wii or the PS3 was cooler. Just let it go...
- Poppeseed, on 11/03/2007, -1/+106After living in Nebraska all my life, I'm not really surprised UNL responded like this. Proud to be a Nebraskan today.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82Dear RIAA:
In response to your letter of complaint and request for information about possible students at our school who might have been downloading your music illegally, we are sorry to inform you that we have recently discovered a unsecured wireless access point that covered a one square mile area and at this time we have no way of tracking or disclosing anyone who might have had access to it.
Best regards,
University of Nebraska IT Department
P.S. ***** off. - drlha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+71It is really starting to feel like the tide is turning against the RIAA recently. This must mean some obnoxious law is about to be passed that'll set everything back for years and have us sent to jail for life for humming a song in public. Not that I'm pessimistic!
- affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -26/+83***** THE RIAA!
- nullcodes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57@angelbunny
"It looks like everyone and their grandmother is against the RIAA today."
Well yes, because they sued her.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3140160.stm - asif5th, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46I can only hope more organizations start doing this.
- airwalkery2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40Yeah. The IT people here are extremely angry about all the work they have to do. They have track the IP to the student and make sure they have enough evidence to link the complaint to that person. Meanwhile all the RIAA did was send them a list of numbers in the mail.
- RoshanK, on 11/03/2007, -2/+35sorry about the comment abuse but here's the direct link to the original article:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070320/171228.shtml - Tourney3p0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32I'm going to talk to my uncle (Janitor at Quiznos) for the same reason.
- kunnavang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+262 out of 3 Nebraskans are Republicans.
- pabster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20@urusai
This isn't about Democrat or Republican.
I'm a staunch Republican yet I despise the RIAA. - cklol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I just pasted that article all over the dorms of UNL (I'm a student here).
***** THE RIAA!
And here's the schools newspaper article about the new RIAA request:
http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/03/22/News/Riaa-Sends.Additional.Letters.To.23.Universities-2786060.shtml - monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Why talk to you Computer Science professor for something that's not even remotely related to him?
You might as well talk to your English 101 teacher about this too. - EthanC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16In Tomorrow's News - "RIAA sues University of Nebraska for obstruction of justice"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@angelbunny
The only people for the RIAA are those who have a vested interest in keeping the system the way it is, as far as I'm concerned. But no one else really has the power to stand up to their tactics, except for the exceptional IT department that gets fed up.
Also, as a University of Nebraska student, I can attest to the fact that IP addresses are dynamic, making it a major pain for IT to identify anyone. However, I am required to register my MAC address to get access to the wireless network. - nebrfan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I doubt the University of Nebraska _actually_ plans on collecting on this bill - this is all WONDERFUL and FREE publicity for the University. Not only do they get to show off the tech/connectivity of the campus by being in the top 3 Universities in the country for illegal file sharing, but now they are "sticking it" to the big, bad RIAA. This is worth at least 3 Tommy Lees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lee_Goes_To_College)
- AngelBunny, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17That is awesome!
It looks like everyone and their grandmother is against the RIAA today.
I'm curious, is anyone actually for the RIAA? - saleggo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Wow, for once Nebraska actually does something kind of worthwhile.
I'm from Nebraska, I can say that.
Maybe the RIAA will get the clue and quit harrassing private citizens. That will give the large labels more time to keep screwing their somewhat decent artists out of money and keep feeding their horrendous pop stars to the public. - RWVolkl158, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I wish Purdue would follow suit. They just sent out an email to all students today basically stating that they will kiss the RIAA's ass and that they will aid them by giving them "logs for the purpose of pursuing legal action" and that "the university will at all times honor valid subpoenas"...
Of course this is most likely just a scare tactic, but it's still *****. - reed311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11This is good. The RIAA is trying to get this information to file a civil suit. A person or persons has no obligation to volunteer evidence to another group that they could use to file suit against someone else. In fact, the University should be protecting its paying students. It is up to the RIAA to prove their case by themselves, no one has to volunteer information to them.
- cklol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yeah, I'm a student at UNL (not for long, moving to Portland) and this is 100% true. I can't believe UNL is being so anti RIAA though, ***** badass! Go Mike! (Huskernet admin)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I always liked corn...
- jerryparid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The MAFIAA will never pay!
- ArchonSG, on 11/03/2007, -0/+10From the follow-up links here's the RIAA's response :
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To make matters worse, the university wants to be reimbursed $11 for each warning letter it processes.
"We're spending taxpayer dollars tracking down RIAA problems," Weir said. "Are we an agent of the RIAA? Why aren't they paying us for this?"
That request was rebuked by the RIAA.
"It is neither practical nor appropriate for us to entertain a reimbursement request," said Engebretsen.
Wonder how UNL will respond to that. Can they sue the RIAA for failure to pay for services rendered? - livetheride, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@nebrfan: Dugg, just for that fact that you used a "Tommy Lee" as a unit of a college's 'coolness'.
- Brasky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yay my school.
- ChewyBass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I think we should all send the RIAA a bill or a lawsuit. They have been shown to file such frivolous lawsuits that I now sit in fear that they will mistakenly sue me for doing something I don't. Oops, got to go, Utorrent just finished another download I have to burn to CD.
- Franey97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Good for them, I hope other schools jump on the bandwagon, mine included.
- DRobins13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8As yet another Nebraskan, this makes me proud.
- Fhwqhgads, on 11/03/2007, -0/+8Now don't be giving those ***** any ideas!
- onidraky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm glad some are standing up to them, but I'm afraid if this ever makes it to Southern Illinois University, where I am, they won't respond so well. Makes me wish I went to school in Nebraska.
- bittie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7After following a couple of links, zdnet has an article that states that the University of Nebraska is going to charge $11 per letter they receive.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=926 - Ubernero, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Stick it to teh man ya corn huskers.
- omgbanana, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10@urusai
You political ***** really piss me off. I want to rip out every ugly political billboard littering my campus and throw them all in the trash.
I'm goddamn tired of everything being some political debate. I want to be left alone, read the platforms of candidates in September, and then vote for my choice in November.
So please, ***** right off with your snide remarks. You're not witty. You're not intelligent. You're not "informed" or even important. You're just ***** annoying. - jackhole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is outrageous. This digg submission links to boing boing which links to techdirt which links to zdnet which finally links to the real goddamn story in The Omaha World-Herald, which is longer than the other three spam snippets combined:
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2348353
The boing boing story itself was so insubstantial, it is contained entirely in the digg description. Besides the fact that it is annoying for users to click through four different sites to get to substantive information, it's also wrong to deny the originating newspaper the ad revenue that boing boing et al. are collecting for no good reason. Buried as spam. - ORD2FRA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Way to go for my Alma Mater (NU '98).
BTW U of Nebraska invented the McRib sandwich and has a kick ass dairy store! (both totally true) - K1llerSe7en, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5GO BIG RED!!! I am a freshman at UNL. And let me say that seeing this, it makes me glad that I go to a school who knows when laws are and aren't being broken, and when to stick it to the man!
- TheIguana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dear RIAA,
Please visit unewbraskap2psettlement.com and pay up or we will be forced to send the repo man to your offices.
:P - dapperdrake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5First Wisconsin, then Nebraska, who will stand up to the RIAA next?
- D34DC311, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6LOL, Hell yea.
and I've had people tell me that the RIAA isnt falling apart. - N1XUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This does actually make sense. Here in the UK its common practice to be charged an "admin" fee of £10 - £25 if you want to request a CCTV security video from an organisation. (Obviously free to police etc.) So unless the RIAA is actually making a criminal case and starts by prosecuting the uni, (who then find the students involved), the RIAA should definitly have to pay up.
- DavidDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The RIAA is abusing the law, and very badly at that. Copyright law NEVER intended or even foresaw this kind of deviant behavior on the part large organizations against individuals. CDs are expensive, but no one is seriously suggesting that the high cost of CDs is a problem. The problem is extortionist tactics, period.
- d03boy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's following me! I am from Nebraska but I go to school in Wisconsin :)
Who wants it next? I'll give you a visit! - crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Awesome. It's about time someone stood up to those pricks.
- Ender06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I currently go to UNL (U of Nebraska at Lincoln) finally someone is sticking it to em!
- MagikOvenMit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's times like this that I'm proud to be a Nebraskan.
- hope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I love it when we Nebraskans unite... Especially if it's against something worthwhile. Like, hmmm, the RIAA.
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