RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints

Doug Lederman writes "As colleges receive exploding numbers of complaints from recording companies about alleged illegal downloading of music files, theories abound about whether the industry is changing its criteria, aggressively targeting users who merely make downloaded music available to others rather than actual infringers. But after weeks of silence, the president of the RIAA says No: Better technology, he asserts, is merely resulting in better enforcement."

Technology that is helping catch more criminals

[hansraj]

Previous technology: Flip a coin. Heads -> you are innocent.

New_and_Improved technology: Throw a die. 1 -> you are innocent.

The future?

[Swizec]

So how long before they target kindergartens? Those little bastards aren't buying any CD's, clearly they're stealing them!

RIAA causes Mystery Rash in College

[muellerr1]

I've always thought you should use plenty of soap and water after contact with the RIAA. You never know what you'll catch.

No Mystery

[slagheap]

Principal Skinner: There's no mystery about what happened to Groundskeeper Willy. Why, he simply disappeared. Now let's have no more questions about this bizarre coverup.

Re:In other words...

[ari_j]

The whole "we only download it because it's crap" argument doesn't hold water for me. If it's so bad, then why are people downloading it in the first place?

I downloaded Metallica's St. Anger to find out if it was as bad as the reviews I'd heard. Turns out that it wasn't. It was far, far worse.

I was going to ask if you wrote your ISP for a refund of the bandwidth.

Re:In other words...

[L4t3r4lu5]

Of course I represent everyone.

Solipsism [wikipedia.org]

Re:In other words...

[imnojezus]

RIAA: *Jedi hand wave* Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

GAH! Mixed movie metaphores! Brain... hurting! Mashups... forming!