Re: RIAA Moves Against College-Network Fileswapping

[Allen Chang <allen () RESCOMP BERKELEY EDU>]

I guess the students who were "operating" the "Napster-like networks"
are network operators. So the RIAA is suing the "network operators", just
not the people who take care of the network.

Allen Chang
Network Security Coordinator
UC Berkeley, Residential Computing

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Michael Sinatra wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David L. Wasley wrote:
>
> > It isn't clear that they're suing the campus network.  The c|net story
> > says they are suing the students who are hosting servers.  Makes more
> > sense anyway.
> > See http://news.com.com/2100-1027-995429.html
>
> That's the impression that I got.  Unfortunately, the RIAA press release
> is very poorly worded.  They refer to "network operators," but the
> context strongly suggests that these are individuals that are operating
> P2P servers.  The press release goes on to praise higher-ed institutions
> as a whole.
>
> michael
>
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