Run Over by the RIAA Don...t Tap the Glass - The Tech

Run Over by the RIAA Don...t Tap the Glass - The Tech

This isn't recent, but I find it amusing. Reminds me a great deal of conversations I've had in the past.

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clipped from arstechnica.com University of Wisconsin decides not to pass along RIAA settlement letters By Eric Bangeman Published: March 20, 2007 - 01:06PM CT The University of Wisconsin-Madison has responded to the RIAA's latest salvo in its campaign against on-campus file sharing by informing the record labels that they will not pass on individual settlement letters without a subpoena. While the school's administration has sent out a campus-wide e-mail to reiterate the school's "appropriate use guidelines," that communication will mark the limit of the school's cooperation with the RIAA. "These settlement letters are an attempt to short circuit the legal process to rely on universities to be their legal agent," Brent Rust, communications manager for the school's Division of Information Technology Students at 13 different schools were sent the group's prelitigation settlement letters, offering them the chance to pay a "discounted" settlement in lieu of fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit