Massive Increase in RIAA Copyright Notices 179
According to Wired, universities in the US are experiencing a "20-fold increase" in the number of takedown notices from the RIAA in the last ten days. Indiana University reports 80 notices a day, but they say their traffic hasn't increased significantly over the same time period. It will be interesting to see if the affected schools join the legal battle against the RIAA, or cave under the increased pressure.
"University of California at Berkeley's chief information officer Shel Waggener confirmed he'd heard of the spikes and suggested there was a political purpose driving them. 'Public universities are in a unique position since the industry puts pressure on us through state legislatures to try to impose what are widely considered to be draconian content monitoring measures and turn us into tech police forces in support of a specific industry,' Waggener said. The RIAA is also backing legislation in states such as Illinois and Tennessee that would require schools that get a certain number of notices to begin installing deep packet monitoring equipment on their internet and intranets, according to Luker."
Re:Built for fraud by MafiAA (Score:4, Funny)
Re:These may be what you call (Score:3, Funny)
What's death throwing? A dictionary [thefreedictionary.com]?
Considering that all of those College kids are (Score:1, Funny)
Re:These may be what you call (Score:3, Funny)
I'll just roll the dice again a few times. Oh no! The RIAA comes back as an army of fifty immortal Zombie Lawyers, each with a +2 damage modifier against Pirates. And they're resistant to damage from illegally copied spells.
Re:RIAA Plunger v.1.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD (Score:2, Funny)