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CriticalError
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Subject: 9 songs now equals "substantial" music shares
Date: November 30, 2003 @ 9:12 PM
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/12/3fb235ffa2f0e
RIAA crackdown hits University
By Joe Rauch
Staff Writer
November 12, 2003
The Recording Industry Association of America's "fear and awe" campaign, combating illegal online music sharing, now is claiming UNC's network as a battleground.
The RIAA on Oct. 6 subpoenaed the personal information of an on-campus student it suspects of offering nine copyrighted songs for download, according to documents obtained Tuesday from the Office of the General Counsel.
The request marked the first time the RIAA has subpoenaed UNC for a student's personal information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The RIAA tracked the user through the file-sharing program Manolito P2P and linked the computer's IP address to the UNC network.
MP2P is like other music-swapping programs, such as KaZaA and LimeWire, which have become popular after pioneering Napster stopped being a free service.
The University has not yet responded to the subpoena, issued in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
David Parker, an assistant general counsel specializing in copyright law, said the University does not plan to respond to the subpoena.
"We consulted with the state attorney general's office when we got this subpoena and notified the RIAA's counsel that we would be submitting a motion to quash this subpoena, on the grounds it was improperly filed," Parker said.
The RIAA responded by telling UNC to ignore the subpoena issued in Washington because a new one would be filed soon in the U.S. District Court in Greensboro.
"We've been sitting on our hands since that communication," Parker said. "It's not that the University is ignoring a subpoena, far from it.
"(Our next action) all depends on when the new subpoena comes from Greensboro."
Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the RIAA, would not comment specifically on the UNC subpoena.
Both Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently contested similar subpoenas on the same grounds, claiming that issuing the subpoenas from Washington was an unfair abuse of subpoena power.
Those two universities later dropped their resistance to the subpoenas when they were re-issued in local federal courts.
The subpoena sent to UNC asks for officials to supply personal information "sufficient to identify the alleged infringer of copyrighted sound recordings."
Parker wouldn't comment on whether the University would provide the user's information when the subpoena is reissued.
He also wouldn't say if his office had contacted the student or if the student would have to seek legal representation.
Under the DMCA, the University as an Internet service provider is required to provide personal information when subpoenaed.
To date, the RIAA has issued more than 1,300 subpoenas under the act, primarily from the federal district court in Washington.
Contact the Projects Team at jbfrank@email.unc.edu.
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RIAAposterchild
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Subject: Re: 9 songs now equals "substantial" music shares
Date: November 30, 2003 @ 9:12 PM
Wow great article CriticalError!
You should submit this to the boycott news so more people will see this. Some people only read the news section and never make it to the forums.
To do that go to the news link on the top tool bar and click the submit button and just fill in the rest...
btw, I knew they couldn't be trusted! Nine songs isn't even one single cd full of music. Death to the evil empire! |
CriticalError
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Subject: Re: 9 songs now equals "substantial" music shares
Date: November 30, 2003 @ 9:12 PM
your right, I guess I should. It is a step up from what they been doing to terrorize the citizens, I guess. |
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