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While the music industry steps up its hunt for illegal file sharers, three Boston schools have taken a step towards preventing it from obtaining information about students’ downloading activity. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has subpoenaed Boston College, Boston University and MIT to release the names and contact information of students trading files on university networks. The schools have announced that they do not intend to comply with the RIAA’s requests, because the subpoenas were filed in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia—not Massachusetts...
While it remains to be seen what the schools will do if the RIAA re-files from another district, the schools were right to challenge these subpoenas, both legally and on principle. The right to download shared music is a freedom worth protecting. While the music industry often succeeds in producing only one or two entertaining songs on an overpriced album, individuals should be able to enjoy the few songs they appreciate without being coerced into buying tracks that they do not want. On the flip side, filesharing often introduces consumers to new artists, whose albums they may later choose...
...RIAA subpoenas that will force schools to disclose student information belie a more fundamental flaw in the association’s method for eliminating file sharing. It is profoundly unfair to target and punish a small subset of the offending population, hoping to make examples of them and scare others away from file sharing. And even if this were justifiable, it is not an effective deterrent. When the initial announcement of the lawsuits against file sharers was made in June, user traffic on Kazaa, one of the most popular platforms for sharing music files, was lower for 10 hours...
...says the Liberty Street building, about 100 m from where the south tower of the World Trade Center stood, is a total loss; the bank insists on being reimbursed for its full $1.7 billion value. But insurers Allianz of Germany and France's Axa are balking, prompting Deutsche to file suit in the New York State Supreme Court. The insurers, who together underwrote 60% of the risk, say Deutsche is exaggerating the damage. They...
...least some Jews in Christ's execution. But they differ on details, such as the community's unanimity and its influence with Pilate, Jerusalem's Roman ruler. Matthew, Mark and Luke accuse individuals and Jewish subgroups but leave room for the (likely) possibility that many rank-and-file Jews sympathized with Jesus or were indifferent. John, however, repeatedly refers to "the Jews" as a whole, implying collective guilt. Matthew provides the only report of a seemingly damning oath by the spectators at Jesus' trial: "His blood be on us and on our children...