A good protest method, if anyone has time & a means to contact some students there:
Students there start deliberately using the software to share completely legal things (e.g., freely licensed and public domain music and books), and then when the police come knocking, explain to the police that sharing culture and information is not inherently illegal. Force the administration and the police to start making distinctions, instead of always assuming that something is prohibited until proven permitted. QuestionCopyright.org might try to organize something like that, if we can find some spare cycles, but... it would be a *perfect* kind of action for Free Culture / SFC! Please, please beat us to it! :-) -Karl Alex Leavitt <[email protected]> writes: >TL;DR, the P2P software is: http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/ > > Interesting quoted responses from the students though: mainly >logical fallacies as arguments, unfortunately, which won't hold up >against current copyright (more unfortunately). Also, there's no >mention of students using this software for legal file sharing >anywhere in the article, which I assume is the most atrocious part, >if they're reporting every student using it, or just filtering the >ones sharing specific files, or what. > >These penalties are being met with harsh words from students. > > Elizabeth Rugen, sophomore Spanish major, was adamant in her >opinion that to call music downloads from LimeWire or FrostWire >“illegal” is attacking only one branch of the tree. > > “People can also download books, and nobody cares if people use >copyrighted pictures for their wallpapers, because it’s so easy,” she >said. > > Ben Skender, junior mass media major, agreed with Rugen’s opinion >and didn’t see the problem with downloading at all. > > “The means of acquiring it may not be right,” he said, “but if >you’re just listening to the music and not selling bootleg album >copies, then why is there a problem?” > > >On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Adi Kamdar <[email protected]> >wrote: > > http://www.vsuspectator.com/2010/11/11/ > new-software-traces-illegal-downloads-on-campus/ > > Blanket criminal felony charges for possession of P2P software? > Something's not right. > > -Adi > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
