Comments on: RIAA to College Students: You’ve Got Mail

By: Raw

Raw — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:11:04 +0000

i forgot to mention, i sent the RIAA an email not too long ago saying “[...] you’ve successfully stopped me from downloading music a few years ago, but you will never stop me from holding the audio recorder next to my speakers [...]” just to see what they’d say. So far, no response.

By: Raw

Raw — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:08:18 +0000

If college students really wanted to download music, they could drive around the block and find a nonsecure wifi connection. Download while on a proxy, and burn the damn files/goods.

But, thanks to aol videos and youtube taking the lawsuits for me, i just listen/watch to the videos on their websites LEGALLY.

By: Kachina Crowe

Kachina Crowe — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:43:20 +0000

Q: Can I avoid this lawsuit if I immediately delete the illegal music and file-trafficking service from my computer?
A: No. Furthermore, once litigation becomes a possibility, deleting music files or the P2P service from your computer would violate your obligation to preserve evidence.

I don’t know if there’s really anything to say to that, other than “lolz.”

By: Daniel Andrade

Daniel Andrade — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:59:02 +0000

Glad I live in Brazil, so I don’t have to worry about RIAA ou anything… yet…

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:23:19 +0000

Glad I’m not in college anymore

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:22:39 +0000

Glad I’m not in college anymore :)

This is “social profiling.” The RIAA should be counter-sued in a class-action lawsuit for damages to the character of all college students.

By: Jordan T. Cox

Jordan T. Cox — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:21:21 +0000

Frank, I’m glad that you guys view BitTorrent as illegal and anything else as clean. With admins like you, it’s no wonder the major ISPs think that HTTP is the only protocol out there! Also, the fact that you think you can block 100% of torrent traffic is quite telling into how much research you’ve done.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:50:35 +0000

that just sucks big time!

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:29:57 +0000

My friend’s at a college that blocks torrents/P2P so I just send him music over AIM file transfer.

By: Devin

Devin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:40:16 +0000

My favorite thing about the site is that while it was 'parked' it was serving ads for P2P software. Yay contextual advertising. Over at BoingBoing, Xeni is asking for students who have been served to contact her for an article she's doing...

By: RIAA Bullys College Students with New Website

RIAA Bullys College Students with New Website — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:32:57 +0000

[...] regarding potential lawsuits against selected students over copyright infringement (link via Paul Stamatiou). The Industry plans to send out hundreds of these letters each [...]

By: Azhar

Azhar — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:01:35 +0000

Don’t ya just love India :)
Sadly I’ll be heading to the U.S. for further education… I hope I don’t have any problems….

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:39:46 +0000

No, I live in the UK, and as such probably immune from the RIAA.
The BPI, (British Phonographic Industry), has done a similar from time to time, but no one really buys this whole “music downloading is bad” nonsense. It’s only bad for the music industries who decided not to embrace it when they had the chance, and now can’t control it.

By: Frank 'viperteq' Young

Frank 'viperteq' Young — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:50:53 +0000

We run a clean outfit here at U.C.; Our N.O.C. blocks Torrent and P2P traffic before it even gets to the internal routers so definitely none of our students will be receiving letters.

Gosh that’s an fugly website…..