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According to RIAA spokeswoman Jenni R. Engebretsen, the RIAA??s records showed that lawsuits have been filed against only two Harvard students—both of whom committed the alleged copyright violations on computers in the Longwood Medical area...
...RIAA??s objection to downloading music does have merit: the act is both illegal and immoral. “File-sharing” paints a rosy picture of a practice that differs little from swiping discs from a record store. Dance rhetorical circles until you’re breathless, but the principle remains that obtaining a song without the artist’s consent is theft. To those of us with consciences, then, downloading music has an additional moral cost; fortunately, there is a solution in pay-for-play websites like Apple’s iTunes and Buymusic.com...
...illegal downloading has exacted a severe toll on the music industry: according to the Globe, worldwide CD sales are projected to fall as much as 15% this year. Universal Music Group, recognizing the futility of litigation, is slashing CD prices from $18.98 to $12.98 beginning October 1. Apparently, the RIAA??s monopoly on pop music has ended and the consumer has finally taken...
...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...
...some undergraduates, like Albert K. Luo ’04, said they do not feel threatened by RIAA??s recent legal actions...