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In Reply to: A distinction without a difference. posted by markrohr on March 22, 2007 at 14:24:27:
Wisconsin, considered to be a liberal school, is offering resistance to the RIAA's controversial settlement letters. The University of Nebraska, which I believe would be considered quite conservative, has taken the step of requesting that the RIAA compensate them for the time wasted on dealing with the issue.And I say, if the RIAA spent the money they've spent on legal fees coming up with something that works as well as Apple's FairPlay, and was able to show universities and colleges why using it would be important, aid legal compliance, and create a good example that would become a social standard, we wouldn't be having this discussion you can't believe you're having.
"the University of Nebraska has told the RIAA that it can't help them identify many of the students accused of file trading. The school's system changes a computer's IP address each time its turned on, and it only keeps this information for month. After that month, the school has no way of associating an IP address with a computer or its user. The RIAA is angry about this, and a spokesman for the group criticized the university for not understanding "the need to retain these records". This is a ridiculous complaint. The university doesn't have a need to retain these records, and there's no reason it should do so out of some obligation to the RIAA. If there were any doubt that the university is really irritated by the RIAA's requests, it has requested that the RIAA pay the university to reimburse its expenses from dealing with this (good luck with that)."
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