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Published in the June newsletter of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the article entreats universities to tell the RIAA to “take a hike...
...This move by the RIAA puts a huge burden on the social fabric of the university,” said Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, one of the article’s authors and the founder of the Berkman Center...
...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...