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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. "This revelation was
more than we could handle."
The discussion and workshops will
feature younger activists as well as
short presentations by former mem
bers of die Weathermen.
"The film and discussion are espe
cially aimed at today's younger ac
tivists who the filmmakers have dis
covered have very little knowledge of
this chapter of the history of Ameri
can protest and dissent" Weathermen
representative Steve Hecker said in a
press release.
Rudd, Knox and former Weather
men members David Powell and
Robin Marks-Fife are scheduled to
speak during the discussions.
Lennon Bergland is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
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