Word: riaa
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...RIAA cannot send these letters—which give the recipient 20 days to try to settle out of court—directly to the students because they can only gain access to the particular IP address downloading the copyrighted material, and not the student’s name associated with that computer...
...RIAA spokeperson who declined to be named said that the organization hopes that the universities will cooperate and pass the letters along to their students...
...part of the RIAA’s most recent offensive, the organization has sent over 2,000 letters to universities across the country in the last five months, and RIAA President Cary H. Sherman published an opinion piece in The Crimson in April stating that for universities to ignore students who download illegally is for them to condone theft...
...RIAA began actively policing peer-to-peer file-sharing networks in 2003. In just over four years, no one has yet tested the association’s claims in court, with everyone choosing instead to settle before going to trial. “Pre-litigation” letters warn illegal downloaders that they could be fined more than $750 per song if found guilty...
...think the RIAA has been abusive in the way they have gone about protecting these people,” Nesson said. “We could definitely use some reform of copyright...