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College Officials Turn Anti-Anti-Piracy

College administrations are so over doing the recording industry's dirty work for them.

Latest comment by Anonymous: Good for the college administrators. They got balls.
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Georgia State Gets Busted!
Any students who have been sued by the RIAA, this one's for you.

According to The New York Times, Georgia State University is being sued by three huge academic publishers (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Sage Publications) for providing students with scholarly media without seeking permissio... MORE »
Illegal Downloading: 4 Realz Tufts?
How many times do we have to read about dumb Tufts students getting letters for P2P illegal file sharing/illegal music piracy on the Tufts network?

The latest news from the Recording Industry Association of America (or NAMBLA) is that 400 more college students are getting letters. And you'd think after ... MORE »
Latest comment by Anonymous: The grand shame of it is that loads of these threats have no legal weight at all; basically just a fancy letter asking for cash. The only part more sad is that many people actually pony up the money.

Don't Get Caught!

Don't Get Caught!
You think you're sooo smart, don't you? After finding that super secret hacker program (Limewire), endless amounts of free music is yours for the taking, right? You can trust Purdue not to tell the mean old RIAA, right? Right?

Wrong. Purdue's going to turn you in, and you're going to owe the mafiaa $750 per illegall... MORE »
This has been a dark week for music pirates across campuses. First, the RIAA lays down a can of whoop-ass, and now OiNK.cd, the largest private torrent server, has shit the bed.

The site, home to 180,000 invite-only members, was a bastion of high-quality full album and software downloads. ... MORE »
The Ithacan: Frivolity and Download Mongering Run Rampant
It's true!

The Ithacan last week featured a piece about the RIAA coming to our school and busting people with $3,000 fines for downloading songs like "Everyday America" by Sugarland:

"Oooh, whoa, everybody's dreaming big
Oooh, whoa, but everybody's just getting by
That's how it g
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Link: http://theithacan.org/am/publish/news/200710_More_...
15 Tufts Students Get Sued by the RIAA
The Physician, our resident expert tipster, has informed us here at TuftsOTR that 15 Tufts students have been subpoenaed by the RIAA for supposed "illegal downloading." Here is what our tipster has to say:
"Everyone always bitches about the RIAA because their entire legal strategy isn't to make up
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Link: http://riaa.com/newsitem.php?news_year_filter=&res...
Latest comment by The Philosopher: Ouch! Off campus housing HELL YES!
Ruckus Offers Free, Useless Music--Free!

Hey, look! An email this morning from CIT
For Ruckus Music: "Head's up! It's free!"

Cornell would like to inform you that, through our partnership with RUCKUS, all Cornell students now have RUCKUS - FREE &  Legal Music For all College Students!


Wow! Now we can download music straight to our comput

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Latest comment by ha-mace: Too bad there's nothing on there you would want to listen to.
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