if i could curse here, it would be directed at the mpaa

ashtray · Post by **ashtray** » Mon May 12, 2003 3:30 pm

Folks,
a machine in your residence hall room has been identified by an outside agency as one distributing copyrighted materials. Recently, 4 students at other universities settled out of court with the music industry for similar charges and agreed to pay between $12,000 and $16,000 in damages. You are at risk. Future complaints of copyright infringement may result in referal to Student Judiciary.
[355-****]

James L. Wolf, Ph.D.
Director, Academic Computing Services
Binghamton University (SUNY)

Phone:(607)-777-6194

Fax: (607)-777-4009

This just arrived in my email, moments after a phone call from Dr. Wolf himself.

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:01 pm

Were you one of the culprits?

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:11 pm

No offence to ashtray, but you would have to be a idiot to say anything other then "No" on a public forum.

ashtray · Post by **ashtray** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:36 pm

well obviously it wasn't me. file sharing is illegal. duh. but i do have 2 roomates.

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:38 pm

Maybe it was one of them then....

Now I'm curious: are they cracking down on internal sharing via school LANs, or sharing via KaZaA or something...hmmm...

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Mon May 12, 2003 5:33 pm

they could go either way on me. I dont share anything over Kazaa. I just dl stuff with it (and yet I still have a supreme being rating)

ashtray · Post by **ashtray** » Mon May 12, 2003 5:54 pm

DADINK13 wrote:Now I'm curious: are they cracking down on internal sharing via school LANs, or sharing via KaZaA or something...hmmm...

in my case, its kazaa or someother p2p prog. however i did see a case in which students designed a file sharing prog that worked solely on their campus network. they were promptly sued and lost big time, to the tune of $56,000, or some other equally outrageous sum. the 4 people involved in the suit ended up paying the amounts refered to in the email sent to me.

from what i've gathered, the mpaa goes onto kazaa and searches for any given file, such as a particularly popular film, and goes to each user and tries to download it and can somehow sniff out the ip address. then they use the ip address to find out that i'm on campus and procede to send a letter to the university threatening legal action against them if they allow such illegal actions to continue. the university of course, knows the location assigned to each ip address. however, in my room for example, there are three different ethernet ports. therefor, the ip address of the "culprit" could be any of the three. to determine which is which, the university would probably have to look at our individual computers and determine what ip address each of us is using. either way, the mpaa can suck a fat one.

EDIT:: http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/target.html
check that out. absolutely ridiculous.

Axilla · Post by **Axilla** » Mon May 12, 2003 6:23 pm

I sell pirated Microsoft software.

Come get me Bill Gates.

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Mon May 12, 2003 6:30 pm

ashtray wrote:however i did see a case in which students designed a file sharing prog that worked solely on their campus network.

What people did and still do at my old school was share files over the network via Windows File Sharing. Then either you could browse the computer manually, or use MP3Voyeur. No programs were designed, and it was all done internally.

However, I spoke with the Network Admin up at my old school while I was still there, and he mentioned something about "cracking down on students with illegal MP3s." So I dunno really..

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Mon May 12, 2003 7:12 pm

PhaseDMA wrote:No offence to ashtray, but you would have to be a idiot to say anything other then "No" on a public forum.

I don't think it matters. I highly doubt it would be admissible as evidence, and certainly not as a real confession.

Axilla · Post by **Axilla** » Mon May 12, 2003 7:58 pm

Hey! Mine was a real confession!

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Mon May 12, 2003 8:00 pm

Axilla wrote:Hey! Mine was a real confession!

You're not the focus of everybody's attention right now..

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon May 12, 2003 8:13 pm

Michael wrote:
PhaseDMA wrote:No offence to ashtray, but you would have to be a idiot to say anything other then "No" on a public forum.
I don't think it matters. I highly doubt it would be admissible as evidence, and certainly not as a real confession.

Maybe not but it's still something I would ever do after being accused...

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