[IP] more on Ohio University announces changes in file-sharing policies

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Andrew Burnette <acb@acb.net>
Date: April 27, 2007 10:14:52 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Ohio University announces changes in file- 
sharing policies

With all due respect.

Copyright violation is NOT a crime, unless in the pursuit of profit.  
It is and always has been a civil matter at the end user level. Of  
course, if you press 1000 DVD's with the motive to sell the work,  
that is in fact a crime.

When will informed people stop towing the MPAA/RIAA line of  
misstatements around as gospel. Simply read the FBI warning on ANY  
DVD word by word and you'll note the subtle distinction, as they  
cannot call it a criminal offense, and do not, because simple  
filesharing and personal violation of copyright is not a crime.   
(Note: Rather than suing end users, do you not think it would be  
easier for the RIAA/MPAA to simply swear before a magistrate for an  
arrest warrant if they could?; they cannot, and therefore, are only  
able to extort via threat of civil judgements)

cheers,
andy

David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
> Date: April 26, 2007 1:33:20 PM EDT
> To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
> Subject: Re: [IP] more on Ohio University announces changes in file- 
> sharing policies
> At 09:22 AM 4/26/2007, David Reed wrote:
> > It would be interesting to know whether Ohio University, an agency of
> > the state, is inspecting the content of packets being sent between
> > ordinary citizens in its enforcement activities in this regard.
> Any facilities-based Internet provider -- public or private -- is
> required by CALEA to be able to monitor traffic. And any responsible
> ISP should be able to monitor his or her network for abuse. Media
> piracy software (sometimes called "P2P" software by people who wish
> to conflate it with legitimate software that operates in a peer to
> peer mode) abuses the network, often without the consent of the user
> who installed it. Universities have the right, and in fact an  
> obligation,
> to prohibit crimes on campus. And any ISP -- especially a University,
> where much network abuse occurs -- is therefore fully within its  
> rights
> to prohibit abuse of the network.
> --Brett Glass
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