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Starting today, and continuing over the next few days, I’m re-publishing a number of p2pnet stories highlighting RIAA depredations against Big 4 customers. And lest we forget: it’s easy to see these crimes against ordinary people, including young children, as being perpetrated by faceless corporations.

However,  highly intelligent, highly educated men and women such as Jay Berman, Hilary Rosen, Mitch Bainwol, Cary Sherman, Amy Weiss, Jenny Engebretsen, Cara Duckworth and Jonathan Lamy, all of whom have been, or still are, dedicated RIAA troopers, have been knowingly and deliberately using the mainstream media to subject innocent people to public ridicule  and embarrassment accusing them, without a shred of hard evidence, of being “massive online distributors of copyrighted music”.

I believe some 40,000 people were victimised in this way.

Only two ultimately reached the US civil court system, but the primary objective had been achieved:

• Create a climate of terror under which to operate a bizarre marketing campaign.

Remember: all of these atrocities — because that’s exactly what they are — were carried out in the names of artists the labels have under contract, and “rights holders”, ie, the major labels, or one of more of their scores of subsidiaries.

Thanks and Cheers!

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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p2p news / p2pnet:- The farcical Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities has issued an “update to Congress outlining the latest efforts to address illegal file-sharing on campuses and the emerging challenges ahead”.

The JCHEEC was founded by the entertainment cartels with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) in the lead to ‘persuade’ universities and other teaching institutions across America to act as marketing, sales and enforcement units.

Penn State president Graham Spanier shares the role of joint JCHEEC chairman with RIAA president Cary Sherman with Barry K. Robinson, RIAA senior counsel for corporate affairs, who deals with “day-to-day” legal matters for the association, as a Penn State trustee.

It works like this: EMI, Warner, Universal and Sony BMG, owners of the Big Music blackmail cartel, have oiled several hard-core commercial music suppliers into the universities and if the students use these ’services’ instead of the p2p networks, the cartel doesn’t sue them.

The project is largely overseen by university staffs who act as unpaid industry cops and sales persons. It’s also indirectly supported by school fees.

Once again, the JCHEEC uses Penn State to launch its latest piece of propaganda which, “highlights considerable progress during the past academic year in the growth of legitimate music and movie services, the adoption of technological measures, and education and enforcement programs on campuses”.

Schools with ‘legitimate’ services on campus have “more than tripled to nearly 70 in the last year,” the report boasts. But, “Despite these great strides,” the report cites “several key challenges” in need of “immediate attention within the university community”.

For example, “student-run file-sharing systems on schools’ Local Area Networks (LANs) as well as the increased use of unauthorized hacks of the legitimate online service iTunes are emerging as significant problems”.

But, “We are thrilled to see the number of schools offering legitimate services more than triple in the last year and remain hopeful that these partnerships will continue to flourish,”says Sherman.

To make sure that’s the case, he and his boss Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol will no doubt soon announce the latest raft of student victims being shafted by RIAA subpoenas.

And the fact both the RIAA and MPAA have weaseled themselves into Internet2 to,”study advanced content distribution technologies” will help as well.

Meanwhile, “Universities have made impressive progress in combating piracy of music and movies through educational efforts, technical controls, and the adoption of legitimate on-line services,” says Spanier. “At the same time, we in higher education must expand the reach of our efforts and must continue to be vigilant.”

Wrong, Spanier.

You in higher education are supposed to be making sure your students get the very best that can be provided, not to be acting as unpaid shills for Big Music and the studios.

In our story on the last University p2p ‘report’, August 25, 2004, we wrote, “None of the 3,995 victims sued by JCHEEC ‘entertainmment’ members have been proven guilty of anything because no one has appeared before a judge. Defendants are always encouraged to settle out of court and to date, Big Music with its bottomless pockets and heavyweight legal teams, remains unchallenged.”

But it’s no longer unchallenged, thanks to Patricia Santangelo, Dawnell Leadbetter and Tanya Andersen, among a handful of others.

Stay tuned.

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