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LSU to start fining unauthorized campus file sharers

article published on 20 July, 2009

Beginning at the start of August, Louisiana State University will begin fining students who are caught pirating music and movies on the campus network. The fine, according to the school's newspaper, will be $50 USD. Says the Daily Reveille: "Sheri Thompson, IT planning and communications officer, said she understands a typical RIAA subpoena to be $4,000. (...) '$50 isn?t $4,000 and isn?t ... [ read the full article ]

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Mysttic

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20. July 2009 @ 02:45

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Yea they "could have ranked an extra $10,000" but thankfully someone was smart enough to see that if you go around charging students for what has become the norm on the net, then a lot of those students wouldn't be able to spend more for coming back, hence the after result would be profit loss. Anyone on a student loan may actually have violated any terms in agreement with a loan, so they too wouldn't be back, hence the university again faces profit loss. And then there is all the students current and potential reading it in the local/global news, or campus news; and if they started to actually put up a whole law suit against them, it wouldn't look attractive for future prospective students to choose that university for their area of study; hence even more profit loss.

Good for the university they found a more reasonable ground for dealing with the situation, the only other issue is what is considered pirate? After all some independent artists use the net a a medium to get their art out, and if that too is labeled piracy, then damn us all.

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emugamer

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20. July 2009 @ 09:36

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Originally posted by Mysttic:
Yea they "could have ranked an extra $10,000" but thankfully someone was smart enough to see that if you go around charging students for what has become the norm on the net, then a lot of those students wouldn't be able to spend more for coming back, hence the after result would be profit loss. Anyone on a student loan may actually have violated any terms in agreement with a loan, so they too wouldn't be back, hence the university again faces profit loss. And then there is all the students current and potential reading it in the local/global news, or campus news; and if they started to actually put up a whole law suit against them, it wouldn't look attractive for future prospective students to choose that university for their area of study; hence even more profit loss.

Good for the university they found a more reasonable ground for dealing with the situation, the only other issue is what is considered pirate? After all some independent artists use the net a a medium to get their art out, and if that too is labeled piracy, then damn us all.

The $10,000 would have been collected if the $50 fine was implemented last year. $10,000 would have been the more reasonable ground.

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DarkJello

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20. July 2009 @ 15:07

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