CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda

jsc writes "On Sunday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article by Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, stating that university students are hijacking Internet2 to pirate copyrighted works, and schools who don't actively combat file-sharing are teaching their students bad values like "acceptance of theft". The Post-Gazette didn't let Sherman get away with it, though... Today they published a letter to the paper from Roger Dannenberg, a professor of Computer Science and Music at Carnegie Mellon University, reminding everyone how past/present behavior of the RIAA and its members is an even worse model of values..."

Bah

[Anonymous Coward]

63% of all rebuttals are made up on the spot. 52% of all people know that.

Full text of rebuttal....

[gardyloo]

"I'm rubber, you're glue."

Re:YAIA

[Anonymous Coward]

Shut up, Hitler.

Robin Hood-Rebound.

[Anonymous Coward]

"No, he's saying people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

People who live in rubber houses shouldn't either.

Cop Killer: Brought to you by the RIAA

[MacDork]

I got my brain on hype.
Tonight'll be your night.
I got this long-assed knife,
and your neck looks just right.
My adrenaline's pumpin'.
I got my stereo bumpin'.
I'm 'bout to kill me somethin'
A pig stopped me for nuthin'!


Cop killer, better you than me.
Cop killer, f**k police brutality!
Cop killer, I know your mama's grievin'
(f**k her)
Cop killer, but tonight we get even.

Yeah, it's those damned colleges that are corrupting the moral values of America's youth while the RIAA [magnetbox.com] stands for all that is just and good.

Robin M. Hood

[Anonymous Coward]

"Absolutely. The internet "sharing" of anything that can be "shared" means nobody with anything digital is going to be able to derive any money from it. This is the target that many claim is where they want things to go."

Didn't RMS teach us that sharing's good?

Teaching their students naughty values

[Anonymous Coward]

"I'm curious, is the RIAA aware that the universities are engaged in adult education?"

They teach porn?

Unreadable

[alan_dershowitz]

Did anyone else find this rebuttal just rambling and boring? He didn't do a lot of rebutting, just yammering all over the map about things only tangentially related to the topic.

Re:What's next... assassians?

[courseB]

assassians.... probably soon.

this will become more common in time as the corporations get bigger... its like shadowrun but they would rarely be used because marketing can create armies to do their biding.

Re:YAIA

[ergo98]

I've never understood that rule - pointing out weaknesses gets YOU no points, it might remove his, but you won't win unless you can actually out-argue one of his points rather than just discrediting them

On the topic of discrediting, I think we should remember that Anonymous Cowards have been, historically, the perpetrators of countless GNAA recruitment campaigns, goatse stealth links, and ad hominem attacks. Anonymous Cowards have posted misogynist and anti-semitic attacks of horrifying proportions, and as a general rule are unsavoury characters.

So clearly your point has no foundation.

Re:Bah

[F13]

Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. Fourfty percent of all people know that.

Re:Unreadable

[FriedTurkey]

Did anyone else find this rebuttal just rambling and boring? He didn't do a lot of rebutting, just yammering all over the map about things only tangentially related to the topic.

Hello...he is a college professor. Did you go to college? College professors never actually say anything useful.

I am not reading the rebuttal. I just picked up a syllabus and I will show up for the exams.

Re:How is this guy a professor??

[thedustbustr]

You read geek news, and have never heard of CMU? Climb back under your rock.

Re:sick of the RIAA stories

[Anonymous Coward]

So is downloading music from "Sherman" Networks illegal!

Re:Robin Hood-Rebound.

[tomhudson]

And people who life in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones**.

** Conditional on the thrones being heavy, and stored on the second floor of the house

... ah, someone who read Isaac Asimov's Joke Book, I see. Carp-to-carp walleting, The Caesar Corn Exchange motto - "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears", the McBeth Drycleaning Co - "Out, out damn spot!", and The Dagger Tail-light Co - "Is that a dagger I see before me".

Re:Cop Killer: Brought to you by the RIAA

[Lester_Wallace]

The best part about this Cop Killer thing by Ice-T is that Ice-T plays a cop on some TV show. Last week I was flipping channels and saw that his character got shot in the chest. I couldn't help but start rappin' some cop killa...

Re:Cop Killer: Brought to you by the RIAA

[AoT]

I forgot about that shit. I am going to go down load it now.

Re:Robin Hood

[macdaddy357]

And Cary Sherman telling people to respect artists is like Jack The Ripper telling people to respect prostitutes.

Re:Robin Hood

[saberint]

haha yes its a biiger fine and u do more time for copyright infringement!

I agree with the professor-TechnoTalent.

[Anonymous Coward]

"With the right hardware and new applications, almost anyone can make, record and distribute quality music."

With the right hardware, Visual Basic, and MSCE certification anyone can be a programmer distributing quality programs.

Re:Robin Hood

[Illserve]

if you want to complain about lost profits, STOP BRIBING CONGRESS AND LAWMAKERS! there, that'll save you more money than yelling at pimple-faced teenagers

Actually bribing congressmen is cheaaaap. They're having a firesale on laws, everything must go!

Last time I read the reports of cash contributions to senators I was alarmed at how little money it took to buy yourself a DMCA. I think it's in the neighborhood of several million clams.

Re:Robin Hood

[stlhawkeye]

Is he saying stealing from thieves (or unethical businesses) is not so bad?

Robin Hood stole from the government, not from thieves.

....

Er... nevermind!