p2pnet - rss feed: You’re on your own, UNM tells RIAA victims
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- In Students unite to fight RIAA case, I said, “Universities across America are refusing to help their own students against ongoing attacks by the corporate music industry.”
They’re not all kowtowing to Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA.
Harvard pointed the way to go quite a while back but unfortunately, it’s the exception not the rule, and meanwhile, with most universities and their staff acting as copyright cops paid for by federal and state authorities, not to mention students’ parents, how can the Big 4 go wrong?
Now it’s been made plain to students at the University of New Mexico they’ll get zero help from school authorities, meaning if they’re looking protection against the RIAA, they’ll have to look to themselves.
Says an official University statement Eliseo Torres emailed yesterday:
A student who is sued by the RIAA or other copyright content owner will be responsible for all costs, judgments and settlements of such a lawsuit. UNM will not become involved in the lawsuit on behalf of students.
In RIAA attacks University of New Mexico, John Doe posts the email UNM sent to students.
“Nice to know we have their support and that they might be willing to testify to things like how easy it is to spoof, or that the keys to all of their access points are completely open, or that their registration form can be hacked,” he says.
“Maybe a subpoena would help them defend their students.”
Here’s the email:
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:49:29 -0600
Reply-To: stulists@unm.edu
Sender: All Students Mailing List
From: stulists@unm.edu
Subject: Illegal Music File Sharing
Comments: To: allstu-l@unm.eduTo: ALLSTU-L@LIST.UNM.EDU
Precedence: list
Sharing copyrighted material on the Internet without appropriate permissions is illegal. When you use UNM resources, like the campus data network, to illegally share copyrighted material, it is also a violation of UNM policy.
Many of you know that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been aggressively suing students at many universities for copyright infringement. UNM is among the universities that have been targeted by the RIAA.
The RIAA and other owners of copyrighted works, such as movies, continuously monitor UNM’s network to detect illegal file sharing.
UNM has received hundreds of notices of illegal file sharing from these companies in the last year. When such notices are received, UNM typically disconnects the Internet Protocol address from the network.
This spring the RIAA began sending notices to UNM indicating that it intended to sue certain students at UNM and identified them by their Internet Protocol address. Lawsuits were filed by the RIAA in federal district court in Albuquerque and UNM has received subpoenas seeking information on the identify of the alleged file sharers on the UNM network. UNM must comply with a valid subpoena issued by a federal court.
Recently the RIAA indicated that more lawsuits would soon be filed naming additional UNM students, unless those students agree to pay many thousands of dollars each to settle RIAA claims against them. Illegal file sharing has become a risky undertaking at UNM, carrying with it a chance of becoming a defendant in a federal lawsuit.
A student who is sued by the RIAA or other copyright content owner will be responsible for all costs, judgments and settlements of such a lawsuit. UNM will not become involved in the lawsuit on behalf of students.
UNM strongly recommends that students should cease illegal file sharing of music, movies, software and computer games in order to avoid this legal liability.
Dr Eliseo Torres
Vice President for Student Affairs
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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October 17th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Another new awesome and damaging way to mess with someone
Everyone not liked will get used and get RIAA letters and no help whatsoever, and due to Thomas wierd verdict RIAA basicly dont need any evidence either.
Your on your own, and you better be liked by the other students or your screwed!
for life..
October 17th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
/sigh
Two things:
1. FERPA. If you don’t know about it, Google it.
2. please state the law in America that says “file sharing is illegal”.
So, not only is this person uninformed (I stopped short of saying he/she was an idiot) but he/she *is* lazy because he/she did not bother to take the time to either 1. confer with the university lawyers, or 2. research what law is supposedly being broken.
Just because you THINK something isn’t right or you THINK an action is illegal do not make it so. In America you used to be innocent until proven guilty, but that has now been turned upside down. These liberal universities should start sticking up for their students instead of caving in to the almighty dollar.
October 17th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Hmmm, this sounds familiar.
http://www.liamjewell.com/wordpress/?p=61 (Plymouth State University - Master’s of CYA!)
October 17th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
@ reader above me and from the ferpa website:
Generally, schools must have written permission from the parent or eligible student in order to release any information from a student’s education record. However, FERPA allows schools to disclose those records, without consent, to the following parties or under the following conditions (34 CFR § 99.31):
To comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena;
Your thoughts?
October 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
“These liberal universities should start sticking up for their students instead of caving in to the almighty dollar.”
Liberal universitys? Hmmmm. Caving to the almighty dollar sounds like something a conservative university would be much more likely to do.
My only real point is, don’t confuse the issue with red herring partisan bullcrap. The rest of the post made some sense.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
No sweat. Just go out and buy a degree. They are a dime a dozen or you can pay somebody to rite your paper.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Then after you pay them to write your papers you can go around and spell words like “write” wrong all day, and nobody will be the wiser! Baka.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Then after you pay them to write your papers you can go around and spell words like “write” wrong all day, and nobody will be the wiser! Baka.
LOL! That was funny!
October 18th, 2007 at 9:56 am
“2. please state the law in America that says “file sharing is illegal”.”
You are an RIAA troll pay by them.
File sharing is not illegal! What are you talking about?
The DMCA is unconstitutional therefore a null law.
The Criminal is you RIAA agent and the parasites you work for Vivendi/Universal, Sony/BMG, EMI, Time Warner
You are a treator and do not deserve to leave in our society. All of you parasties of the entertainement industrey ar guilty of trampling our institution, our constitution and guilty of persecution of US citizen in th exercise of their constitutional right. Sooner or later the law will catch up we you! Or we will!
October 18th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all those who can afford it. And if I can’t afford it, sucks to be me.”
Sadly this may turn out to be the new Pledge of Allegiance sometime in the future the way things are going in this country. Also notice there is no “under God.”
October 19th, 2007 at 1:54 am
“Reader’s Write Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 9:56 am
“2. please state the law in America that says “file sharing is illegal”.”
You are an RIAA troll pay by them.
File sharing is not illegal! What are you talking about?”
He’s asking “them” to prove that a law in America says that file sharing is illegal. He’s implying that there isn’t a law that says file sharing is illegal. Duhr.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:42 am
The same Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s send un-addressed paper mail advertisment known as “waste generation” with fake recycling into my real world mail box in another country with a tax deduction to increase returns on investments’.
Can’t trust major news because they have shares in music sales. (free speach on sale for $19.95)