Are universities protecting students from the RIAA?
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The Recording Industry Association of America is waiting half a year to file lawsuits against alleged college file-swappers. But without schools keeping long-term logs of Internet addresses assigned, the RIAA won't get very far.
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Up to 800,000 of the school's students, faculty and alumni may be vulnerable to identity theft.  What went wrong, and what can be done about it?
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The recording industry's lobbying group today sued three users of American University's computer network, accusing them of illegally sharing digital music files online. They are among 761 suspected music pirates in the latest round of lawsuits. -washingtonpost.com
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The proprietors of the P2P file-sharing program LimeWire, who were sued last August by a coalition of the major names in the recording industry, has filed a countersuit in the U.S. District Court in New York, claiming that the RIAA is using its copyrights over recorded works as a weapon.
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Tell us how you see the RIAA's attack on the mild reforms in the Fair Use Act. Is the organization protecting consumers? In GadgetLab.
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(InfoWorld) - A new bill in the U.S. Congress aimed at protecting the fair use rights for consumers of copyright material would "legalize hacking," the Recording Industry Association of America said. The Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship (FAIR USE) Act, introduced Tuesday by U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and John Doolittle, a California Republican, would allow customers to circumvent digital copy restrictions in six limited areas when copyright owners' business models are not threatened, Boucher said in a press release. So-called fair use doctrine allows customers of copyright works to make limited numbers of copies, particularly for reviews, news reporting, teaching and research. The bill would allow exemptions to the anticircumvention restrictions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by Congress in 1998. The bill is revamped from similar bills introduced in the last two sessions of Congress, Boucher said. "The fair use doctrine is threatened today as never before," Boucher said in a statement. "Historically, the nation's copyright laws have reflected a carefully calibrated balanced between the rights of copyright owners and the rights of the users of copyrighted material. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act dramatically tilted the copyright balance toward complete copyright protection at the expense of the public's right to fair use." But the RIAA said the bill would effectively repeal the DMCA. The bill would "allow electronics companies to induce others to break the law for their own profit," it said in a statement. Advances such digital music sales, online games, on-demand movies and e-books can be traced to DMCA protects, the RIAA said. "The difference between hacking done for non-infringing purposes and hacking done to steal is impossible to determine and enforce," the RIAA said in its statement. The Boucher bill would limit the availability of statutory damages against individuals and firms who may be found to have engaged in contributory infringement, inducement of infringement, or other indirect infringement. The bill would allow libraries to circumvent digital locks or secure copies of works that have been damaged, lost or stolen. The Consumer Electronics Association applauded the bill, saying it would give protections to consumers, educators, and libraries. Without fair use protections, consumers couldn't use devices such as VCRs and digital TV recorders, the trade group said.
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The Recording Industry Association of America filed the copyright infringement suits against 750 computer users across the country -- including 25 university students.
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On-demand media not exempt Vital copyright exemptions for universities, schools and hospitals do not apply when material is provided on demand, an EU researcher says. The long-standing exemptions are relied on by teachers and researchers but do not exist in on-demand media, he said.â¦
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Colleges and universities across the country are taking new steps to fight rampant Internet music piracy by beefing up their education efforts, offering legal music downloading options and stiffening penalties for illegal file sharing, according to a report released today.
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Technologies that let people record satellite and Internet radio broadcasts digitally are opening a new front in the recording industry&#39;s war on music piracy.
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Money meets mouth on file-sharing legislation threats ISPs are calling on the record industry to put its money where its mouth is on illegal file-sharing, by underwriting the cost of lawsuits brought by people who are wrongly accused of downloading or uploading music.â¦
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The nation's colleges and universities are taking more aggressive steps to curb rampant Internet music piracy, according to a report released today. -washingtonpost.com
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The recording industry's trade group said Thursday it will give hundreds of college students suspected of illegally sharing music online a chance to reach settlements before being sued for copyright infringement.
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The RIAA unveils P2PLawsuits.com, a site that allows people turned in by their universities or ISPs for copyright infringement to settle their cases in advance of due process. In Listening Post
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The music group says it's filed suits against 762 people it suspects of song swapping, including students from 26 different colleges and universities. The RIAA has now sued roughly 5,400 people over the past year.
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A surprisingly large number of people who share music and other files on P2P systems are inadvertently exposing bank account and similar personal information on their computers, according to a study by Dartmouth University's Tuck School of Business.
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The recording industry debuts a new carrot-and-stick approach for dealing with file-ripping students and the colleges and ISPs who know them. By Eliot Van Buskirk.