Student pirates targeted

[mmbt0ne]

Best thing UMass produced since.....

umm......

Marcus Camby? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Seriously though, why do people share music? I'm sharing 800MB worth of commercials, BMW films, and the movies we made for our campus competition. Sharing music and staying logged in is just retarted. They deserve what they get.

[DrPublo]

I have a very close friend at school who is being sued by the RIAA in this most recent round of raids. He's going to have to pay somewhere between 5k and 10k in fines.

Piracy is going away and it sucks.

The Doc

[DrPublo]

Under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act), universities that provide internet service count as commercial ISPs (in a slightly reduced sense), and therefore must, under the law, hand over the names associated to IP addresses that have been identified as pirates.

In the past Universities refused as an academic freedom argument, but they've been ruled against in court. Most universities want to keep their hands clean in all of this and so give up the names.

The Doc

[Tron]

I thought you couldn't access the internet2 network unless you have a university IP address... Does this mean that universities are selling their own students out?

[zaxx19]

Yes Tron it does.

[mmbt0ne]

Either that, or some bitch sold his peers out. And if that is what happened, I hope he has no friends.