Word: riaa
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Harvard, like many universities, has been under pressure from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to crack down on students who use their network connection to download music. Last April, then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 announced that the College would unplug the connection of any users caught sharing copyrighted songs...
...study’s conclusion contradicts many of these earlier surveys, which attributed some of the recent decline in record sales to the increase in illegal music downloading. According to the RIAA, the number of albums shipped has declined by 31 percent since...
...moment of Thursday-night-lull weakness (not to mention moral weakness, according to the RIAA), I downloaded Clerks last week. I got through about an hour of its grainy black and white glory before conceding to the sullen stack of books that sat accusingly on my desk. Before long, though, I was sneaking back to the movie, just to watch Jay and Silent Bob dance in front of the convenience store one more time. Clerks had snared me for the night, but its magnetism had less to do with cinematic excellence than with the familiarity, the memories, that the movie...
...gift certificate from a friend. It’s a mixed feeling. There is the thrill of choosing individual songs from amongst hundreds of thousands and watching as it takes the few seconds to arrive on your computer—and the smugness of knowing that the RIAA can do nothing. But the thrill is tempered by the feeling of having given in to The Man in the suit. Once you start paying for your music downloads, it’s all downhill—you might as well take out a mortgage and buy a Volvo...
...untouched beside me as I feverishly scanned through playlist after playlist, discovering heretofore-unknown treasures and old favorites (The Jackie Brown soundtrack? I lost that CD sophomore year! An out-of-print Weezer EP? There is a God!) Apple has even provided users with a solution to those pesky RIAA lawsuits. Songs are only streamed onto a user’s computer; they cannot be saved or burned onto a disc. Because copyrighted material is not actually being transferred, there aren’t any irritating legal issues to deal with...