RIAA Cracks Down on Internet2 File Sharing

Daverd writes "Hundreds of students at 18 universities nation-wide have had lawsuits filed against them by the RIAA for filesharing over Internet2." The official RIAA Press Release and commentary at MSNBC is also available. From the article: "i2Hub has been seen as a safe haven, and what we wanted to do was puncture that misconception," said Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA. "This has been a subversion of the research purposes for which Internet2 was developed."

So...

[ayn0r]

...RIAA was concerned about that Internet2 wasn't used for research only, and 'decided to help'. How kind of them...

Re:true

[Anonymous Coward]

well screw you, I'm gonna go make an Internet3. With gambling and hookers.

Thank Goodness

[MoonFacedAssassin]

Oh! Thank goodness! RIAA to the rescue again! I was losing so much sleep over this and cannot fathom people sharing files.

*DING*

Oooh...the Star Wars Episode 3 soundtrack is finished downloading...BRB!

What is Internet2?

[John Seminal]

Is there a second internet, or is it something like bittorrent or some small group that runs on top of the internet? Is it like what the french have?

It was wrong but still....

[TsukasaZero]

"This is Lars Ulrich, drummer of Metallica. Last week, he purchased a gold plated shark table to be installed in his basement club. But because of file sharers, he has to wait another week. This is the home of P. Miller, his wife, and his 4 year old son. All little TImmy wanted was an island in French Polynesia with giraffes and wild horses running free. But this year, he'll have to settle for his own island in the Bahamas with white Siberian tigers." -South Park, changed a bit. The students did do wrong though. 19535^13 megabits per second should not be used to share One Night In Paris.

Re:true

[Anonymous Coward]

In fact, forget the Internet3, and the Gambling

oblig futurama ref

[EddieBurkett]

In fact, forget the Internet3!

Re:Queue "They Have no Right" posts

[Grym]

Yes, we all hate the *AA's but they were breaking the law, and bastardizing a research network.

I agree completely... I know I, for one, can now rest easily knowing that the long arm of the RIAA's corporate law enforcement division is patroling Internet2...

-Grym

Awww heck.

[k4_pacific]

Time to tear it down and start working on Internet3.

Re:Queue "They Have no Right" posts

[PxM]

Bastarding a research network? I disagree. All they were doing was ... uhh, stress testing the network by sending random bits of data that just happened to look like movies and porn when viewed with a media player.

On a more serious note, while the file swapping was illegal, it did help network engineers figure out how to prepare for the future when everyone has the same bandwidth to their homes as university dorms. When people can send a full CD of data in
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Invites?

[tektek]

Does anyone have any invites for Internet 3?

Slashdot Headline, 2010...

[Kethinov]

Slashdot Headline, 2010: RIAA cracks down on all network protocols.

In their everlasting and Glorious Crusade against music piracy, the RIAA has successfully lobbied congress to make the entire concept of networking illegal, as it has the potential to violate music copyright. Also covered by this broad new bill passed by congress are all forms of LAN protocols such as NFS and Samba. Computers will no longer be allowed to exchange information in any way.

Also covered by the bill is the /bin/cp binary on unix systems, CD and DVD burning devices, pens and pencils, and the freedom to hum and whistle tunes. The RIAA is working hard to enforce a mandatory cutting of vocal cords of all new babies born in the US, and the amputation of their arms so as to make their ability to infringe on Holy Copyrights more difficult.

RIAA expects total victory over the human race within ten years.

Re:Doubtless from on of the instutions

[Lehk228]

they wouldn't have to "monitor the network" all they would need is a university connection and they could log on to i2hub from there it's just like any other user except with the evil bit set to True.

Re:Who didn't see it coming?

[Anonymous Coward]

The wonderful thing about i2 is that its still the internet, only faster. Freenet would work on it just like it works on a Chinese dialup (that is to say, not well at all).

Re:What the hell

[Spy der Mann]

(italian gangster voice) Bambino, you forgot the #1 rule of illegal file swapping... you must ENCRYPT.

Capisca? (slaps swapper's head)

Translation:
They were idiots. It's their own fault they got caught.

No Cal-Tech??

[John Seminal]

I see MIT listed, but no Cal-Tech. I guess the guys at Cal-Tech are either more honest and only buy music and never share, or they don't get caught.

BTW, I also see Harvard and Princeton. I like that. Those are the guys who are damn good at shit like Law and turning a simple argument into a 5 year long case.

Harvard Student: "But your Honor, we have not examined how this law relates to the 1892 Kapskern case"
Judge: "Kapskern??"
Harvard Student: "Yes, it set a precident about if the tomatoe is a fruit or vegitable, and there are many parallels between that question and the question of sharing music".
Judge: Irrelevent, find something else.
Harvard Student: We motion for a continuance so we can file an appeal to this decision.
Judge: Case postponed for appelate review, we'll recovien in 4 months.

Re:Queue "They Have no Right" posts

[pilgrim23]

Actually this IS a research project! For years scientists have pushed poor mice through mazes with little to show (for the mouse), but some cheese and confusion. Here we shoot MP3's down a digital pipe and log the time it takes for "Weasels In Suits" (tm) to come sniffing for money. The abstract for the eventual paper resulting from this might finally explain some of the more perplexing issues surrounding weasel in suits behavior... The paper could have graphs for such things as: "press conference exposure ratio". You could maybe do a full study on the number of times names are reused in Word documents ( W.I.S. are notorious for failing to clear mark-up changes in Word documents). I see doctoral thesis material written large all over this..

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[PriceIke]

There's plenty of reason not to like Alcoholics Anonymous. You just can't say publicly that you don't, or you get modded "flamebait".

Re:No Cal-Tech??

[vivin]

Or how about:

Harvard Student: Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, The RIAA's attorney would certainly want you to believe that I downloaded copyrighted material through the internet2. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: Ladies and gentlemen this [pointing to a picture of Chewbacca] is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!

And so on and so forth...

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[JaxGator75]

Whoa... there's an Internet 2 now?!?

Re:When you hide 100s of TB of media...

[WillAffleckUW]

...you're a distribution house.

Or, more likely, you're researching sound wave patterns in popular songs, as part of a PhD dissertation on how different forms of music all share specific patterns and other such research.

Face it, you don't know what anyone's reason might be, you're just making assumptions.

They could be looking for WMD, after all, or was that WAV?

Re:Queue "They Have no Right" posts

[ajs]

Hey, more power to 'em! I hope they sue a few thousand more people.

Best thing the RIAA can do now is convince everyone to buy music only direct from artists with an agreement that file-sharing is cool. The RIAA can feel free to up the timetable on that process all they like.

Re:Slashdot Headline, 2010...

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In other news, Microsoft Sues the RIAA for patent infringement over patent number 1.52^e101 - "Method for lobbying Government to attack competitors".
Also, British Telecom's spokesman had this to say "...We welcome this victory for our friends in the RIAA - although other networks may suffer problems implementing the new policy, we are not worried, as we have been virtually stopping our customers from communicating for years..."

I'm on Internet3!

[dBLiSS]

The RIAA will never find me on Internet3!!!

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[B3ryllium]

"We have to separate the Good Internets from the Bad Internets!" -- SNL W. Bush

Related note...

[Anonymous Coward]

In a related note, the **AA has also resorted to stopping local traffic in various major cities and asking drivers to prove their recorded CD-R's came from *legal* sources. If a driver or passenger is unable to present the actual legal media on demand, a citation for $50,000 will be delivered on the spot for each song on each CD-R, and the **AA will attempt a citizen's arrest. When one local motorist asked if this violates any Constitutional right, a piece of duct tape was promptly placed over their mouth and they were hauled away.

How many UMass students does it take...

[Spunk]

Considering that UMass is indeed listed, I have to wonder if you're a product of that institution. :)

Re:Queue "They Have no Right" posts

[Yartrebo]

This post is the copyrighted property of me. You may only make one copy of this post for personal use. Any additional copies, such as that made by your browser cache, in the registers of your CPU, or on your retina are a violation of copyright law.

Because I'm a nice guy, I'll make it easy on you. Pay me $5,000 and promise not to do it again, and I'll let you off the hook.

Re:No Cal-Tech??

[NotoriousQ]

RIAA Lawyer: Hey, good one! Do you want to work for us?

Re:Who didn't see it coming?

[ConceptJunkie]

Man, I'm glad I went to school in the 80's when we needed audio cassettes and floppy disks to pirate stuff. No one ever got sued for using a tape recorder or running Copy II PC.

Internet3?

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's create Internet3 just for file sharing!