RIAA stepping up college complaints about P2P; MSU forces recipients to watch RIAA propaganda
The Associated Press reports that the RIAA has dramatically increased the number of file-sharing complaints it is sending to college campuses. This is not very surprising, given that everything else they are doing (including filing over 20,000 individual lawsuits) is failing to stem the tide.
What's perhaps more interesting is how the college administrators are reacting. One administrator at Michigan State appears to be taking a Clockwork Orange-style approach to the problem:
Hall meets personally with students caught twice and forces them to watch an eight-minute anti-piracy DVD produced by the RIAA. A third-time offender can be suspended for a semester.
The article doesn't say, but I'd be curious how well this "forced education" approach is working. Of course, it may just cause the student who get busted to go underground and get their music via wifi networks and iPod parties instead of P2P.
That's hilariously frightening.
Next they'll be running around with giant penises!
Posted by: Ann Larie | February 21, 2007 at 03:57 PM
Nice to see MSU on the forefront of behavior modding ... Go Spartans!
Posted by: farlane | February 22, 2007 at 11:06 AM