Word: copyright
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This isn't how it was supposed to be. A little more than three years ago the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.), which represents most U.S. record labels, filed suit against Napster, the granddaddy of file-sharing services, for "contributory and vicarious copyright infringement." The R.I.A.A. won; Napster lost. A judge ordered its servers shut down. End of story...
...legal fight is far from a sure thing. Copyright laws are slippery and subjective--the judge in the Grokster case made a special plea in his ruling asking Congress to fix gaps in the laws that cover file sharing. Enforcing those laws is also tricky. Colleges, where a lot of the downloading goes on, like to think of themselves as bastions of privacy and free speech, not copyright police. The international reach of the Internet makes enforcement even dodgier. Case in point: in 1999 Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager, figured out how to break the copy protection on commercial DVDs...
...example of weblogs at work: In early April, Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis ’68 published a letter about copyright on the Internet. Shortly thereafter Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at the Berkman Center, published a critique of Lewis’ policy. Seltzer is an expert on copyright on the Internet, and her opinion, very respectfully stated, while critical of Lewis, was of obvious interest to the community defined by our weblog. So I linked to Wendy’s piece, and the Dean’s letter, without comment, from the main Berkman weblog...
...College rightly recognizes the importance of the network to its educational mission, and it should likewise recognize the importance of balanced network policies that promote academic freedom. The law permits, and students are entitled to, full process before the termination of network access on copyright grounds...
...disturbed to read of the College’s concessions to pressure from the movie and music industries ( News, “Lewis Threatens To Unplug Illicit File Traders,” April 11 ). While the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is far from perfect, copyright law does not require the severe and potentially unwarranted penalties the University has announced...