Recording Industry vs the People have posted some great tips for those college students that have been targeted by the RIAA in their campus file-sharing crackdown.
Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry vs the People are New York City-based lawyers who through the Electronic Frontier Foundation have undertaken to represent people in their area who have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
As their site notes:
…we have undertaken to represent people in our area who have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for having computers whose internet accounts were believed to have been used to access peer-to-peer file sharing. In these cases, a cartel of multinational corporations collude to abuse our judicial system, distort copyright law, and frighten ordinary working people and their children. We established this site to collect and share information about this campaign.
So for those that have received a notice suspecting you of illegal file-sharing I recommend you read and follow their suggestions, and more importantly, spread the word to others. For as RIVP points out, the most effective counterattack to the RIAA’s assault on college students is to ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE. It’s much easier to pressure and intimidate individuals than it is to do so against a group.
Suggestions to College Students Being Targeted by the RIAA
THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE. HOWEVER, I DO ADVISE YOU TO GET LEGAL ADVICE, AND NOT TO TAKE YOUR ADVICE FROM THE RIAA, THE MPAA, YOUR SCHOOL, OR ANYONE ELSE WHO IS NOT YOUR LAWYER.
These are my suggestions to college students being targeted by the RIAA:
1. Join together with other students who are being targeted, pool your financial resources, and hire an attorney who is ready, willing, and able to (a) advise you of your rights and (b) fight the RIAA’s "John Doe" cases when they are brought.
2. Bring to your college or university’s attention my "Open Letter to Colleges and Universities"
3. Join or start campus charters of Digital Freedom and/or FreeCulture.
4. Remember that the RIAA does not presently have your identity, and that by calling them or visiting their web site you may be giving them your identity.
5. Read and learn about your rights.
6. Organize.
7. Organize.
8. Organize.
-R.B.
Link to printable version of these suggestions.
via RECORDING INDUSTRY vs THE PEOPLE
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