arstechnica.com — After a George Washington University student argued that the RIAA's subpoena seeking his identifying information from the school wasn't authorized by law, the judge in the case has told the RIAA to show cause why the subpoenas for all 19 defendants shouldn't be quashed.
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liquisoftNov 19, 2007
Not that I support stealing music, but if everybody on earth stole music the RIAA attorneys probably wouldn't have much of a salary coming in. Again, don't steal music. This was just a quick thought.
kd1sNov 19, 2007
In the case of this judge, I say we give her an award with a set of solid 24k balls on it. Even if she doesn't have em' she can simply point to the award.
tmslakNov 20, 2007
That's not true...I would still think they were assh**es, even if they WERE operating within the law. Now they're just bigger assh**es.
bioskopeNov 20, 2007
your school still allows file sharing? Hell in my University even irc is cut off. Talking to the big baddies running the big bad nat router was helpless . They've been fed with a precompiled list of all protocols that they need to block and they will not waver on that. It pissed me off a lot till I got a connection to my apt as I am someone who needs his daily fix of bitching about mysql, oracle and whining about perl on the different chans on freenode.
onilxNov 20, 2007
The problem here is that RIAA has no claim to find out who exactly has been violating copyrights on campuses. Since, yes, the school is not a cable provider, then the campus cant be required (as a cable provider is) to identify their users to RIAA. That?s great for Doe 3. However, the school can still be sued since, first, the school is connected to the interwebs, and two, there are violations happening on their LAN, going to the web.Chances are Doe 3 is in violation of his network user agreement by sharing copyrighted material. So GWU can pretty much rape Doe if that?s the case, but that?s on their own terms. RIAA has no claim to the identity of Doe 3.What interests me is what recourse RIAA has to Network only sharing. There are still systems that are designed to keep all the pirating off the net and keep it localized. The dirty secret that college network admins don?t want to admit is that they prefer these on their (dorm) networks since school make students go through what we called at my school ?Virus Remediation.? Basically, they keep the backbone of the network free of virus transmission by first making all the computers on it pass a scan and second, by having a (underground) file sharing system on the network to keep the kids in the dorms form downloading interweb STDs.
squeezerNov 21, 2007
Well yeah. I would too. But I wouldn't want to see the entire industry dismantled with the same fervor that I have now, I'd just be mildly annoyed (like how I am with book publishers or something)