Word: copyright
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...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that it will file lawsuits today against 405 college students, including 11 at Harvard, for copyright infringement carried out over a special network used by academic institutions...
Additionally, Palfrey said he believes the University should have “a process by which...student[s] can push back,” contesting allegations of copyright infringement when they believe their actions are not illegal...
Consider, for example, the recent notice of pending subpoena submitted to the associate Provost’s Office by the RIAA, mentioned in the Crimson on March 18th. It suggested that at least two cases of copyright infringement had been traced back to computers in the Longwood Medical Area, and that a request for the identity of the infringing parties would likely soon be filed with the courts...
...wager most Harvard undergrads have committed willful (and in most cases knowing) copyright infringement, and I can guess reasonably well by looking at the shared music libraries on iTunes that many people have done so quite recently (the collector’s edition of The Massacre by 50 Cent has only been out since the beginning of March, and I’m sure at least some of the half-dozen or so copies online weren’t actually purchased...
It’s not just copyright, either: many have had a similarly dissonant reaction to the HBS admissions hacking incident of last month. All the now-Harvard-rejects did was guess at the address for a page that was already available on the net—it’s as if you had guessed the six-digit code number for this article and found it before it was linked to from the Crimson’s online front page (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, browse to this column...