RIAA Adds 23 Colleges to Hit List, Avoids Harvard

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA has added 23 new colleges and universities to its hit list, but deliberately omitted Harvard, apparently afraid of the reaction it's likely to get there, having been told by 2 Harvard law professors to take a hike. 'Under the new scheme, the RIAA sends out what it calls 'pre-litigation' settlement letters. Actually, they're self-incrimination documents and they're designed to extort preset amounts of around $3,000 from students with the empty promise that by paying up, they'll remove the threat of being hauled into court on charges of copyright infringement. In reality, all the students are doing is providing the RIAA with personal and private information which can conceivably be used against them ...'"

Re:I Can Only Hope...

[Joebert]

Somthing about dropping logs & being relieved just sounds right.

Re:These letters are quite ridiculous

[Joebert]

I got one of those letters & I've never even been to college.

to: [e-mail]
from: [e-mail]

Dear joebert,

It has come to our attention that you've been downloading music illegally at school, we have records of you using one of the file sharing programs that can be found at download.com to recieve the files after being tipped off by your schools IT department.

If you send $3,000 to our paypal account we will not proceed to sue you for upwards of tens of thousands of dollars.
If you prefer you can send cash to P.O. Box 1234 somewhere FU & nobody has to know about this.

Thankyou for your prompt action,
RIAA

Re:Shamelessly stolen from bash.org and changed

[Mike89]

Actually I believe the aussie government is already well on the case.

Correct, as a resident Aussie this is already the case over here too. Hooray for not being able to sing Happy Birthday to you, happy birthda... be right back, someones at the door.

Re:Harvard may have clout but...

[laejoh]

Harvard will be the RIAA's Vietnam; fighting a guy called Charlie :)

Re:They are...

[chazzf]

The RIAA may have over-reached this time. I'd be impressed if they can even find Northern Michigan University, let alone transport themselves there.

Hope you boys like US 2!

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[Dragonslicer]

The US owns the patent on having a slime bag Attorney General. We'll see you in court.

You must be new here.

[b1scuit]

Of course we can!

Re:For those too lazy to read:

[russotto]

Franklin and Marshall College

Hmm. What's a small college in Lancaster, PA doing on the list, otherwise consisting mostly of large universities? Did some RIAA lawyer get expelled from there?