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Music lawsuits hit campuses
By TODD ZEIGLER
Published , March 30, 2004, 06:00:01 AM EDT
College students across the country may soon be spending the money they thought they saved by sharing music online to instead pay legal fees.
The Recording Industry Association of America targeted college students for the first time in its latest round of lawsuits to stop illegal sharing of copyrighted music files.
According to an announcement last Tuesday, the RIAA has filed suits against 89 students who were using university servers at 21 different colleges to distribute files on peer-to-peer networks.
The University was not listed among colleges where students are indicted, according to an RIAA press release.
"Obviously, college students are a big part of the problem, and therefore it was only a question of time before university users would be named as defendants," said RIAA President Cary Sherman in an online chat with college journalists from across the nation.
Sherman said college campuses are attractive places for file-sharing because of free and unlimited bandwidth.
Sherman said those targeted for lawsuits were chosen based on the amount of their infringing activity.
"The greater the number of copyrighted music files offered for others to copy, the greater the likelihood that you will be a target of litigation," he said.
The average number of files being shared by the defendants was 837, ranging from the low hundreds to the thousands, Sherman said.
The RIAA has settled more than 400 cases with illegal file-sharers so far, with the average settlement being about $3,000.
"This is not a revenue-generating exercise," he said. "We're trying to send a message that the activity is illegal and can have consequences."
Stan Liebowitz, professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas, discussed the impact of file-sharing on recording industry revenue in his book, "Rethinking the Network Economy: The True Forces That Drive The Digital Marketplace."
Liebowitz said the impact of file-sharing on the record industry is not as bad as the RIAA makes it out to be.
"They always try to put the ugliest face on it," he said.
Liebowitz said record sales fall into different categories, such as cassette tapes, compact discs and singles sales. The RIAA emphasizes the categories that have the worst sales figures.
"But it has been a bad three years for the industry," he said. "They lost 20 to 25 percent of sales, which is a pretty big amount."
"The question is, is it peer-to-peer file-sharing?" he said. "People try to make claims for other reasons. Some say music is not as good as it used to be. Some say DVD technology is improving and driving down CD sales. But in my research, these other reasons don't hold up."
He said everyone in the recording industry, from record label employees to performers and songwriters, are feeling the effects of declining record sales.
"When the industry suffers, everyone suffers, and when it succeeds, everyone benefits," he said.
"The industry is a goose laying golden eggs," he said. "It's great to get the eggs for free, but if enough people get them for free then the goose will disappear."
Music lawsuits hit campuses
By TODD ZEIGLER
Published , March 30, 2004, 06:00:01 AM EDT
College students across the country may soon be spending the money they thought they saved by sharing music online to instead pay legal fees.
The Recording Industry Association of America targeted college students for the first time in its latest round of lawsuits to stop illegal sharing of copyrighted music files.
According to an announcement last Tuesday, the RIAA has filed suits against 89 students who were using university servers at 21 different colleges to distribute files on peer-to-peer networks.
The University was not listed among colleges where students are indicted, according to an RIAA press release.
"Obviously, college students are a big part of the problem, and therefore it was only a question of time before university users would be named as defendants," said RIAA President Cary Sherman in an online chat with college journalists from across the nation.
Sherman said college campuses are attractive places for file-sharing because of free and unlimited bandwidth.
Sherman said those targeted for lawsuits were chosen based on the amount of their infringing activity.
"The greater the number of copyrighted music files offered for others to copy, the greater the likelihood that you will be a target of litigation," he said.
The average number of files being shared by the defendants was 837, ranging from the low hundreds to the thousands, Sherman said.
The RIAA has settled more than 400 cases with illegal file-sharers so far, with the average settlement being about $3,000.
"This is not a revenue-generating exercise," he said. "We're trying to send a message that the activity is illegal and can have consequences."
Stan Liebowitz, professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas, discussed the impact of file-sharing on recording industry revenue in his book, "Rethinking the Network Economy: The True Forces That Drive The Digital Marketplace."
Liebowitz said the impact of file-sharing on the record industry is not as bad as the RIAA makes it out to be.
"They always try to put the ugliest face on it," he said.
Liebowitz said record sales fall into different categories, such as cassette tapes, compact discs and singles sales. The RIAA emphasizes the categories that have the worst sales figures.
"But it has been a bad three years for the industry," he said. "They lost 20 to 25 percent of sales, which is a pretty big amount."
"The question is, is it peer-to-peer file-sharing?" he said. "People try to make claims for other reasons. Some say music is not as good as it used to be. Some say DVD technology is improving and driving down CD sales. But in my research, these other reasons don't hold up."
He said everyone in the recording industry, from record label employees to performers and songwriters, are feeling the effects of declining record sales.
"When the industry suffers, everyone suffers, and when it succeeds, everyone benefits," he said.
"The industry is a goose laying golden eggs," he said. "It's great to get the eggs for free, but if enough people get them for free then the goose will disappear."
nativesunshine
Diamond Member
no protesting...
no wtf...
people knew what was going on.
it was pretty much..just a cool hanging out thing..meeting the people you've spent the last 3 years chatting with and sharing files with..or just hanging out with the people you have met through it...
why can't people just accept that it was fun..i'm sharing pics..and leave it at that??
oh...and <3 sully. 🙂
something like this happened not too long ago near my home:
the cops finally busted the abandonded house being used to center a small drug ring. except im the only one that showed up and i was only there because i didnt know it got busted and then i had to act like i was just walking past the boarded up section of town for excersize or something. but i did stop on the over-grown lawn...then i went home and had dinner.
i stuck it to The Man something fierce.
the cops finally busted the abandonded house being used to center a small drug ring. except im the only one that showed up and i was only there because i didnt know it got busted and then i had to act like i was just walking past the boarded up section of town for excersize or something. but i did stop on the over-grown lawn...then i went home and had dinner.
i stuck it to The Man something fierce.
bonkers325
Lifer
set up a LAN BitCollider or BitTorrent
Ahhh Rutgers... my alma mater.
What happened? They killed their P2P app or something?
Dunno what DirectConnect is. When I was there (Busch Campus) we didn't even have ethernet in the dorm rooms. (Suites - Judson)
I remember going to the crappy computer lab (Hill center) with a boxful of floppies to download crap off the net. Hey, it beat doing it over 14.4 dialup from the dormroom!
-Matt
What happened? They killed their P2P app or something?
Dunno what DirectConnect is. When I was there (Busch Campus) we didn't even have ethernet in the dorm rooms. (Suites - Judson)
I remember going to the crappy computer lab (Hill center) with a boxful of floppies to download crap off the net. Hey, it beat doing it over 14.4 dialup from the dormroom!
-Matt
nativesunshine
Diamond Member
how long ago was this??
ethernet is in all the dorms now....(i think)....so awesome. heh.
nativesunshine
Diamond Member
yay!! one of my pics is going in tomorrow's school newspaper!! w00t!
EDIT: actually..it'll be in Friday's paper. still cool tho. 😀
EDIT: actually..it'll be in Friday's paper. still cool tho. 😀
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