Re: RIAA Strikes B.U. & M.I.T.

["Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

> Couldn't a user who has a large selection on his copmputer available
for
> download make the case that he is doing that for his own personal
use...to
> be able to DL from home, work, school?

> Making them available on line for your own personal use is legal,
> making them available to others is not.

If I make them available to myself for personal use...and someone else takes
them.

Why is that my fault?  Why should I be charged?

JP


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
To: "Roy Lawrence" <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>; <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: RIAA Strikes B.U. & M.I.T.


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roy Lawrence" <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>
> To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:05 PM
> Subject: RIAA Strikes B.U. & M.I.T.
>
>
> > All Access is reporting Boston University and M.I.T.
> > have moved to quash RIAA subpoenas demanding the name
> > of students it says are swapping music files
> > illegally. The schools are citing privacy concerns.
>
> Interesting legal theory.  If the student privacy laws are actually so
broad
> as to protect illegal activity, the laws need to be changed.  A case could
> be made that BU & MIT is liable for allowing their systems to be used in
> this way or particularly for not taking steps to stop it when made aware
of
> the problem.
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
>
>