The Recording Industry Association has reportedly sent 60 cease and desist letters to East Stroudsburg University.
With the movement to legalize campus file-sharing with a blank tax, you’d think that the campus lawsuit campaign would be winding down. That appears to not be the case according to Pocono Record, a news site in Pennsylvania.
The report says school officials confirmed that 60 notices of copyright infringement have been received. More from the report:
“So far, the school has had to issue roughly 60 warnings to students this semester,” said Bob D’Aversa, head of ESU’s academic computing department. “We only had to issue about five during all of last year.”
“College campuses are easy targets,” D’Aversa said. “A huge amount of content gets downloaded through campus networks, and the RIAA can zero in on numerous offenders all in one place.”
Not wanting to shy away from any opportunity to insert some propaganda, the report also includes this:
“Society’s attitude toward downloading music illegally has become so lax that people forget that intellectual property is still property, and to acquire it without paying is stealing,” RIAA spokesperson Liz Kennedy said. “Institutions of higher education, of all places, are where people should learn about the value of intellectual property and the importance of protecting it.”
The lawsuit campaign over the years has earned the copyright industry few supporters. It was only recently that a Harvard professor weighed in on the situation describing the campaign with the following: ““Its’ a shake-down, it’s an extortion, it’s a blight and its an insult to the Federal Courts and the idea of law and to the poor people who have to work as the cogs of this administration making this machinery work”
With many campuses being targeted in the lawsuit campaign, mysteriously, Harvard was never a campus that appeared in any of the lawsuit campaigns. Many speculate that it’s merely because Harvard is a prestigious law school and that any lawsuit issued against a student there would be countered unlike many other campuses across the United States. Some suggest its a combination of available money and a large amount of knowledge of the law that has prevented the RIAA from targeting anyone at Harvard – essentially, the ability to fight back.
Still, it seems to be business as usual as the RIAA continues its lawsuit campaign against students.
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