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Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA.

Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. — Heroes of the week.

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Live 11 a.m. PST Wednesday Video Chat With Threat Level's Kravets

Live 11 a.m. PST Wednesday Video Chat With Threat Level's Kravets November 19, 2008 - 9:29pm — MacRonin Live 11 a.m. PST Wednesday Video Chat With Threat Level's Kravets: Via Threat Level Return to this post at 11 a.m. PST on Wednesday for a live video chat in which I will discuss and answer readers' questions about the Recording Industry Association of America's five-year litigation campaign. While my Threat Level colleagues are toiling away exposing security and privacy breaches, I'll be

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U of Tennessee blocked P2P sites before RIAA law

RIAA didn't need a law to persuade Tennessee, the home of country music, to block P2P sites back in August. More...

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RIAA Agrees To Settlement, Then Asks For Twice As Much

RIAA Agrees To Settlement, Then Asks For Twice As Much Techdirt Wed, 11/19/2008 - 15:24 Ray Beckermann is, once again, highlighting some highly questionable activities by the RIAA, noting that after getting defendants to agree to a settlement amount, the RIAA sometimes immediately asks for double the agreed upon amount, and submits that proposal to the court.

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RIAA to Tennessee Schools: Show Us the Money

Wired Magazine is reporting that the State of Tennessee, despite huge budget shortfalls in their public university system, will spend over 9 million dollars of public money to help the RIAA fight music piracy."Combating music piracy at Tennessee's public university system is more important than hiring teachers and keeping down tuition costs. Just-signed legislation requires the 222,000-student system to spend an estimated $9.5 million (.pdf) for file sharing "monitoring software," "monitoring h

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Tennessee Adopts $9.5 Million University Piracy Measure Despite School Layoffs

Here we can plainly see that the concerns (and profits) of the American Corporate state supersede everything else… Source: Wired.com Combating music piracy at Tennessee’s public university system is more important than hiring teachers and keeping down tuition costs. Just-signed legislation requires the 222,000-student system to spend an estimated $9.5 million (.pdf) for file sharing “monitoring software,” “monitoring hardware” and an additional “recurring cost of $1,575,000 for 21 staff posi

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Monty Python launches official YouTube channel

By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Claiming to be tired of all the rip off Monty Python videos uploaded to YouTube over the years, the Monty Python members have decided to put a stop to it once and for all - by uploading the clips themselves. They have created their own YouTube channel and they will be gradually uploading as much material as possible for free - but they are asking that users then click on the page links to buy their shows on DVD.   Obviously this is not obligatory bu

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Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA

Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA November 19, 2008 - 11:55am — MacRonin Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA: Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report at p2pnet, Duke University has told the RIAA that it will no longer forward the RIAA's 'early settlement' letters to its students unless the RIAA submits 'evidence that someone actually downloaded from that student,' and said that 'if the RIAA can't prove that actual illegal behavi

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Tennessee Universities Now Required to Filter Networks

A new, RIAA-backed law in Tennessee will force Universities to filter their networks for copyrighted materials. The government’s estimation of how much it will cost exceeds $10 million, but more worrying is the trend towards networks filtered with systems that do not work and support legacy businesses at the expense of users. The massive lobbying efforts which made this law happen relies on the inaccurate piracy statistics that the big content industry often propagates. However, as Richard Esgu

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Tennessee Universities Now Required to Filter Networks

A new, RIAA-backed law in Tennessee will force Universities to filter their networks for copyrighted materials. The government’s estimation of how much it will cost exceeds $10 million, but more worrying is the trend towards networks filtered with systems that do not work and support legacy businesses at the expense of users. The massive lobbying efforts which made this law happen relies on the inaccurate piracy statistics that the big content industry often propagates. However, as Richard Esgu

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Music Piracy Has Unintended Consequences For Some Students

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that some students, faced with payment demands from the RIAA for illegal file sharing, are paying up, and then finding that they cannot afford to return to school. Read more here.

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Nixed Remix Sunday (Palms Out Sounds)

Sadly, Palms Out Sounds, who has been putting together hot hawt hooootttt mixtapes every sunday for a long while has been hit by the RIAA: Google, the IFPI & the RIAA have begun a campaign against all the music blogs hosted on blogger.com - especially high profile blogs, like Palms Out. This first started a couple of months ago, but only hit Palms Out about a month ago. Without warning, Google removed three old posts from the blog, and offered no explanation. They then followed by removi

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Linkblog for Nov 08 to Nov 15

Linkblog for Nov 08 to Nov 15 November 19th, 2008 by Gerard McGarry. Here’s a bunch of cool music-related blog posts I’ve come across recently. And In the End: 25 Great Last Songs On An Album Although less and less relevant in the age of MP3s, an album’s sequencing used to be a vital part of the creative process. Important for pacing, creating a mood, and establishing a cohesive artistic statement, the order of the tracks was often mulled over as closely as the recording itself. Opening num

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"New TN Law Forces Universities to Patrol for Copyright Violations"

This is bad news for our schools. :( See the discussion on Slashdot: Link... Here's a quote: "Last week, the RIAA celebrated the signing of a ridiculous new law in Tennessee that says: read more

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Tennessee's Higher Education Filtering Law to Cost State Institutions Over $9.5 Million to Start

The Tennessee Fiscal Review Committee estimates that SB 3974, a recently passed state law aimed at stopping copyright infringement in higher education institutions, will initially cost state institutions over $9.5 million, with ongoing annual costs topping $1.6 million in FY 08-09 and $1.9 million in succeeding years. Read more about it at "RIAA Gets Tennessee Law to Force Universities to Filter Networks for Copyrighted Content"; "RIAA Wins, Campuses Lose as Tennessee Governor Signs Campus Net

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Tennessee's Higher Education Filtering Law to Cost State Institutions Over $9.5 Million to Start

The Tennessee Fiscal Review Committee estimates that SB 3974, a recently passed state law aimed at stopping copyright infringement in higher education institutions, will initially cost state institutions over $9.5 million, with ongoing annual costs topping $1.6 million in FY 08-09 and $1.9 million in succeeding years. Read more about it at "RIAA Gets Tennessee Law to Force Universities to Filter Networks for Copyrighted Content"; "RIAA Wins, Campuses Lose as Tennessee Governor Signs Campus Net

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Wired Returns Live on Justin.tv

We're excited to have tomorrow at 11:00 AM, PST a live video chat with David Kravets, Staff Writer, Wired.com. David plans on discussing the ins-and-outs of an RIAA lawsuit and will be answering questions from viewers. David Kravets writes about security, privacy and intellectual property in the online world for Wired's Threat Level blog -- with a focus on copyright law. As the legal affairs writer for The Associated Press, his works routinely appeared in every major U.S. newspaper, including T

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RIAA Just Bunch of Criminal Thugs

Image via Wikipedia Glad to see more and more pressure mounting to reign in RIAA and their insane, Gestapo-style tactics. According to the AP, Harvard Law professor Charley Nesson is going be defending one of the school’s students in court. “Nesson argues that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 is unconstitutional because it effectively lets a private group — the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA — carry out civil enforcement of a c

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Tennessee Passes RIAA-Backed Campus Downloading Bill

Nashville - Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen last week signed into law a bill that will compel universities in the state to invest in campus network anti-piracy technologies, should they receive a certain number of notices that their students are believed to be illegally downloading copyrighted material in a given year. read more

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Tenenbaum Trial and Future of the Internet

[The following post was written by Yvette Wohn] Joel Tenenbaum was one of thousands, perhaps millions of teenagers. When he was 17, he allegedly downloaded seven songs from the Internet using a peer-to-peer file sharing program called Kazaa [Both parties appear to agree this is a downloading case, not (solely) an uploading case like many of the others]. Now, 10 years later, he is being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), along with Capital Records and Sony BMG. What d

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