RIAA Complaints (was Re: DMCA (Ares and other))

[Willis Marti <wmarti () TAMU EDU>]

> I don't mean to highjack Greg's survey, and I have provided answers
> below, but has anyone else been experiencing a dramatic increase in
> copyright infringement notices from the RIAA this year?
 Yes. One explanation may lie with a RIAA/MPAA "push" to get higher ed
to buy off on the industry's favorite (for cost) "solutions". Higher
numbers of notices can be pointed to as a sign of there being an
increasing problem. IMHO, it's a lot like traffic tickets -- one can
write as many as one has the time. We know there's not a complaint
received for every instance, but there's no real correlation between
number of DMCA complaints and amount of P2P sharing activity.
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Cheers,
 Willis Marti
 Associate Director for Networking
 Computing & Information Services
 Texas A&M University