Mafiaa demands could cost colleges $500,000 a year

Why should the college pay for this implementation. If the music industry wants to stop p2p make them pay for the services required to stop illegal downloads. College student's quality of education should be number one priority. Taking money from their funding to stop them from downloading is idiotic. If you don't educate the public, the public will no be able to afford to waste money buying you music. How can we buy radios, mp3 players, etc etc.

Idiotic Music Industry.

How anyone can find if downloaded file is copyrighted or not? So, if 10% of music copyrighted tne the 90% rest is spoiled with music cartel to stop competition?

Seems to me that it would be a lot cheaper for a handful of schools to pool their resources and challenge the law in court. Worst case they could probably get a stay for at least a semester if not an entire year.

Isn't there anyway to fix this im tired of dealing with these pigs and there rules

Zionist propaganda isn't worth downloading even out of spite and this only makes me want to download out of spite...if only there was something worth downloading of course!

The schools are now required to educate the students on the legalities of downloading files? Then why are they not also required to educate them on the legalities of drinking, shopping, taking drugs, driving, and anything else students do during the course of their college education.

FFS, they are 18 yrs old (and older). They are legally responsible for their own actions. I have an idea. Considering what's coming out of our schools these days, let's take some of the load off the schools and put it on the students. Let's make the schools responsible for educating the students in the area they chose (and paid) to study and let the students take the responsibilities for their own actions where the law is concerned.

If I was a student today, I would be pissed that part of my tuition is going to financing my education in the law rather than educating me in my chosen field of study.

We should just allow pirates to steal because it's convenient - well at least if no one does anything about it, it would be.

Why not charge pirates $10,000 per copy that they steal or illegally distribute. We could also expell them from school and imprison them for their crimes - like every other criminal.

We could also hold parents of these criminals accountable for the actions of their offspring. This approach seems to have a very significant impact on the "training" that young people get regarding law and order and personal responsibility. 

I think we have some workable solutions here that we can implement along with the current proposed legislation.

Oh and attacking copyright holders is not only irresponsible, it's socially ignorant. People would be wise to punish the criminals, not the victims.

a copy of said song 1 of 15-20 at 15$-30$ a CD should in theory cost 1-2.25$ at best. How about you charge the "criminal" that for each song? Im pretty sure thats the real cost for the song and not some over inflated trickle up theory about how much a CD really makes.

And why would a school be responsible? They arent! That would be retarded. At some point someone is going to say enough. They need to realize that art is art and everyone should have the right to see it, hear it, feel it, say it. Making a living is great if your good, but its gone way past that when you have a car parked in the garage for every day of the week, a house you sleep in a new bedroom day, and your agent/manager, record label exec have 10 times that. Be a success and stop being greedy.

sadly "paul", you're the victim of greedy music/movie industry criminal....

Greek universities are public. Greek law, defending the freedom of students since 1941 states that NO POLICE or Military Authority can enter university premises under any circumstances without the explicit permission of the student body. It is the student's right to do whatever they want within campus walls. Protest, Party, Do Drugs or even go as far as to download Metallica Songs. I wonder if the Greek legislators will succumb to US bullying pressure and try to pass a new law ^_^

why would you charge people $10k for something that is worth pennies. The creators are not always the copyright holders, and they are the ones who should be protected. Creators of music are finding new ways of distributing bypassing the mobsters of the entertainment industry. And the industry wants to stop any type of competition, They don't need any help protecting themselves. A free market cannot play favorites and stop innovation. The cd has been around since the 80s and the price of cds has not leveled to a realistic level. The worst part is that lp's still sound better than compressed music, unless you want to spend thousand on equipment that fixes the problems created by digitization.

Glad to hear input from the RIAA.
Just because it is currently legal (laws passed by people ignorant of technology, influenced by money) does not make it Constitutional. 

Just imagine if all of the technologies that industry lobbied congress to make illegal before our country was bought and sold by corporations, were illegal.
They were short sighted all the way back to the 1950's when they lobbied congress to make the Xerox illegal because it was going to kill publishing... then cassette recorders, then VCR's... and so on...

The first step is to try and protect your existing business model, which usually involves a locked down distribution chain. Whether it is distribution of hard merchandises, of gas, power, media, or music... gee now why would OUR (USA) broadband uplink speed be crippled, compared to the rest of the world?

Change your business model, or someone else will make money off your content.
.... and then your companies will just be a memory, and required reading in business schools.

"...between £350,000 and $500,000...", translates in todays money as "...between $597,205 and $500,000..."


The lawyer school should make a mass case study, in which all students would take a lawsuit against Mafiaa and they would pass if they would win and would stomp the Mafiaa into the dust.

A simple EULA stating that the college doesn't permit illegal downloading, and if any student is suspected of it then the college will have over details to the MAFIAA.

That's all, where is the cost in this? Just get the IT guy to hand over the logs. Oh right the cost of logging, is it really going to be $500,000?

Or the college's could get together, form their own union and start putting some pressure on their members in congress.

nice to have the fed's ::translate, taxpayer:: as one's personal security guard

If they wanted to be slick they could start charging the students for the internet connection. Then the school would simply be a service provider. If the Mafiaa attempted to go after a service provider to get these same conditions, they would be fighting not only the schools, but Comcast, AT&T and all the others that provide internet even if it is provided by a cell phone.
I don't thing that is a fight they would enjoy.
I just wish there was a way for us to completely boycot the RIAA and still be able to buy music.

The cost of the "awareness" campaign should be borne by the music industry, no question. The schools have no educational mandate to educate all students on copyright laws and it would be an undue burden for the music industry to force such mandates on the institutions. As for the network traffic filtering, most colleges are already implementing some sort of traffic monitoring/filtering to effectively use their network resources. I don't see where passing a law to require a certain level of filtering or a certain filter would be of any benifit to the students/institution. A little common sense and working with institutions that do not have/implement effective network traffic filtering/monitoring tools, and showing those institutions where the traffic filtering/monitoring will actually allow them to use their resources more effectively would go a long way... The colleges and the content MAFFIA both have a common interest in reducing piracy (obviously for different reasons), but the MAFFIA is going about it the wrong way, and they will be met with resistance as long as they continue their current tactics.

I agree the students who pirate should pay and pay dearly. In addition to the $10,000 per copy, they should pay all costs of prosecution and incarceration.

Since the colleges are providing the internet link, they have a responsibility to filter any transmission of copyright protected materials. Failure to filter the copyright protected material would result in aiding in piracy, which no respectable college should be a part of.

All who pirate should do jail time and pay heavy fines. Punishment is meant to be a deterrent and criminals understand this before they commit their crimes. Attacking the law is foolish as law abiding citizens will not tolerate piracy - which is why there in new legislation worldwide to curb piracy.

all people have to pay us tax money. period. diaaariaaa.

Did Paul just post twice on about the same thing?
Anyone want to bet that his IP comes from the same source? and can be directed back to RIAA, and the MAFIAA? 

Anyways, imposing a fee onto Colleges/Universities just because they can't find another way to sue the students is just down right dirty.
Students, Teachers, Parents especially should be appalled that they have to pay yet even more to post-secondary tuition fees, especially something that is not directly contributing to the students education.

I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't a tax free credit for tax time either.

Just a caution RIAA, and MAFIAA, you are making enemies of those who will control the future. Once all those baby boomers are gone from the 50's - 70's, you won't have a prayer to hold on to.