Re: RIAA Complaints (was Re: DMCA (Ares and other))

[Wayne Bullock <wayne () FAU EDU>]

I had concluded that we are getting more of the RIAA complaints because
of something that Areswarez did. Somehow it adapts to a mode that our
policy boxes, TippingPoint can't completely block. But, maybe the events
are not correlated.

        --Wayne

Wayne Bullock, MSCIS, CCNA
Associate Director, Network Services
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Richardson [mailto:JasonR () GWM SC EDU] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:31 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] RIAA Complaints (was Re: [SECURITY] DMCA (Ares and
other))

And, even worse, most of the notices that we have received from the RIAA
do not appear to be legit, i.e., in researching them, we do not find
outbound data flows for the hosts noted, at the time/date specified. 
Meanwhile, we are pouring man-hours into researching each of them to the
exclusion of real work that needs to be done.  I've been at this for
over six years now, at two different universities, and I've seen the
infringement notices wax and wane as the RIAA and other copyright
enforcement police tweak their methods every year.  I have been
hypothesizing that the reason that we are seeing such an increase in
notices here is that we stopped shaping this year, but it is not clear
to me that that is true if this just yet another tweak by the RIAA to
apply pressure.  I see that at least one other responder
enthusiastically recommends a device sold by Sony which certainly fits
with what you have written below.

Thanks,

Jason Richardson
Network and Security Ops Manager
University Technology Services
University of South Carolina
803-777-0392
jasrich () sc edu

> > > wmarti () TAMU EDU 09/19 9:20 AM >>>
 Yes. One explanation may lie with a RIAA/MPAA "push" to get higher ed
to buy off on the industry's favorite (for cost) "solutions". Higher
numbers of notices can be pointed to as a sign of there being an
increasing problem. IMHO, it's a lot like traffic tickets -- one can
write as many as one has the time. We know there's not a complaint
received for every instance, but there's no real correlation between
number of DMCA complaints and amount of P2P sharing activity.
-- 
Cheers,
 Willis Marti
 Associate Director for Networking
 Computing & Information Services
 Texas A&M University