Purdue University Warns Students: The RIAA Wants Info on Thousands of You
Last week, 40,000+ students at Purdue (including myself) received a warning email. In short, stop illegal downloads, the Recording Industry AssociatioRead More…
Category: Cyberlaw
1 in 4 Students Pay the RIAA When Sent a Letter, So the RIAA Keeps Sending
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that it has reached 116 settlements after going after 400 students / computer users at Read More…
Purdue University Warns Students: The RIAA Wants Info on Thousands of You
Last week, 40,000+ students at Purdue (including myself) received a warning email. In short, stop illegal downloads, the Recording Industry AssociatioRead More…
Top School in India Restricts Internet & Claims Surfing/Blogging Makes Students Suicidal
A top engineering school in India, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai, has pulled the plug on Internet usage between 11 p.m. and 12:30Read More…
Microsoft Lawyer Bashing Google to Accomplish… What?
In a rather bold move, Thomas Rubin, associate general counsel at Microsoft, released a copy of the speech he is giving to the Association of AmericRead More…
RIAA Sends “Pre-Litigation” Letters to 400 Students at 13 Universities
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wants to give hundreds of college sRead More…
The Google Scandal: Keeping $809K of $1.1M of Revenue Generated from Piracy (Allegedly)
So our friends at the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) are running multiple stories on Google today with reference to online video. At the Read More…
North Koreans Wish for Internet While Retired People Elsewhere Surf Over Gardening
I came across two pieces of information today, and the juxtaposition was too much to not share. First piece: a new study out by AXA has found that retRead More…
Artists Aren’t Starving Because of Piracy
In the age of digital media, piracy runs rampant. It is now as easy to share music or a movie as it is to share an idea. With the press of a button, yRead More…
Can Viacom Force YouTube to Implement Automatic Blocking of Video Uploads?
So we’ve all heard the news of Viacom demanding YouTube to take down 100,000+ videos of various shows including good stuff from Comedy Central. A ViRead More…