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...snuck an early peek at their admissions decisions, the blogger Nicholas Ciarelli has been asked by the California courts to reveal the names of his sources, at least one medical student is on his or her way to being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and lest the University Library feel left out of the copyright infringement loop, their celebrated digitization project being orchestrated with Google has come under fire as well...
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...
...What the RIAA would like us to believe is that the as-yet unnamed culprits are guilty of the equivalent of petty theft or shoplifting. But did we react to this story in the same way we would have if we found out that a handful of our peers had been caught walking into Tower Records and swiping a recording of a Bartok piano? Probably...
Engebretsen said the RIAA has filed approximately 9,100 lawsuits against individuals for copyright infringement since September...
...these lawsuits work is, we file them as ‘John Doe’ lawsuits,” she said. This means that the RIAA files a lawsuit without knowing the identity of the defendant. The name of the person being sued is then found out during the discovery process of the legal proceedings...