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BICYCLE WAY OF LIFE 2480 Alder & 152 W. 5th & Oasis Plaza The recording industry's latest round of legal action pertaining to file sharing will target college students By Steven Neuman News Reporter The Recording Industry Association of America announced on March 23 a new round of copyright violation lawsuits, this time specifically target ing college students. The RLAA issued a total of 532 sub poenas, including 89 targeting indi vidual college students who allegedly used university networks to distribute copyrighted sound recordings on peer-to-peer services. The lawsuits affect students at 21 different schools in Arizona; Cali fornia; Colorado; Indiana; Mary land; Michigan; New York; Pennsyl vania; Tennessee; Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin. the consequences of illegally 'sharing' music files on P2P networks," Sher man said in the release. "Piracy, which is particularly rampant on college cam puses, continues to hurt retailers, mu sicians, producers, record labels and the thousands of less-celebrated indi viduals involved in making music." Although legal sources for buying music on the Internet such as Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store have proven popular, illegal downloads still persist despite repeated litigation by the RIAA. Sunil Karia, a senior studying eco nomics, switched from peer-to-peer downloading to pay services last year. "I'm fine with (free downloads) if an artist is fine with it," Karia said. "I didn't agree with the RIAA, but I defi nitely saw some of the truth in their argument. I found some of my fa vorite bands by downloading illegal ly my freshman year, but there's something to be said about having a CD case with all the art." Further.net where the artists give their permission to let fans download, the/re not big names. That is proof to me that they're not out to help any one but themselves." The success of lawsuits against un named downloaders has come into question, however. NPD, a business that tracks Internet traffic, reported that shortly before the initial round of individual lawsuits in September 2003, two in three house holds had at least one digital music file The survey also found that more than half of U.S. homes had more than 50 songs and 8 percent of all households had more than 1,000 songs. In January 2004, a follow-up report concluded that illegal Internet music downloads had increased since the lawsuits. The number of U.S. house holds downloading music from peer to-peer networks rose 6 percent in Oc tober and 7 percent in November, according to the study. This rise in ac tivity followed a decline in downloads that lasted six months. me kiaa is also implementing the "John Doe" litigation process again, a strategy used to sue defen dants whose names are not known. In the past year the organization has repeatedly targeted individual users of peer-to-peer file sharing programs — such as KaZaA, BearShare and LimeWire — that allow users to trade digital media content. RLAA President Cary Sherman said in a press release that the music in dustry's current actions are a matter of enforcing music copyright laws and making a point. "It's important for everyone to un derstand that no one is immune from According to Sherman, the law suits are not motivated by profit. "It undermines the ability of the music community to invest in the great, up-and-coming artists of to morrow — a real loss, especially for fans who look for fresh, new music," Sherman said in the release. But sophomore business student Will Richard said he feels that the RIAA is motivated by greed. "For them to attack innocent col lege students who are just evolving with the music industry makes no sense," he said. "If the RIAA is saying they're protecting the little guy they're flat-out lying. If you go to places like For Richard, the lawsuits are also an example of unfair business prac tices that stifle commerce. "For them to complain about peo ple sharing their music is complete ly unjustified in today's society. The way capitalism works, companies have always had to deal with compe tition to survive and, to me compa nies like Napster and KaZaA are just competition to the music industry," Richard said. Contact the business/science/ technology reporter at stevenneuman@dailyemerald.com. Activists to speak on campus The aging Weathermen strive to educate younger activists about the history of protest in America By Lennon Bergland Freelance Reporter Former members of the Weather men, a radical anti-war group, will be on campus today and Saturday as a part of a two-day program that in cludes workshops on peace and social activism, a discussion and a showing of the Academy Award-nominated docu mentary 'The Weather Underground." The film will be shown in 180 PLC today at 7 p.m. The discussion follow ing the film will look at social activism during the Vietnam War and how it re lates to young people post-Sept. 11. The first of Saturday's workshops, sponsored by the UO Survival Center, will run from 10 a.m. until noon with the theme of "Looking Backward: Lessons for Activists from the Antiwar Movement." The second workshop, entitled "Looking Forward: Building Progressive Unity and Effectiveness in the Post 9/11 World," runs from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The documentary, by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, chronicles the Weath ermen's emergence and impact in a world shaken by war and revolution. It documents the Weathermen, who got their name from a Bob Dylan lyric, as they split from the larger, more peaceful Students for a Democ ratic Society. "The Weathermen isolated them selves," former member Carolyn Knox said. "We lost touch with the bigger movement." The Weathermen were responsible for bombing numerous government buildings and monuments during the '60s and '70s to protest the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War and other policies. Their ultimate goal, according to Mark Rudd, a leader of the movement and principal figure in the film, was the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. "Our government was murdering 3 to 5 million people." Rudd said in the documentary. 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