Need another reason to hate the RIAA? How about this: the RIAA has been freaking students out at all of the Ivy League schools — except Harvard. That’s right, the RIAA is too scared to go after Harvard students in its never-ending campaign to stop filesharing and free music downloads.

In its latest initiative, the RIAA is targeting schools such as Columbia University, Duke University, Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, and Brown University. So why isn’t the RIAA picking on Harvard students?

Believe it or not, Harvard’s Professor of Law Charles Nesson and John Palfrey, clinical professor of law, stated that:

This Spring, 1,200 pre-litigation letters arrived unannounced at universities across the country. The RIAA promises more will follow. These letters tell the university which students the RIAA plans on suing, identifying the students only by their IP addresses, the “license plates” of Internet connections. Because the RIAA does not know the names behind the IP addresses, the letters ask the universities to deliver the notices to the proper students, rather than relying upon the ordinary legal mechanisms.

Universities should have no part in this extraordinary process.

Harvard hates the RIAA! Jonathan Lamy from the RIAA said that filesharing “theft triggers a harmful domino effect throughout the music community - thousands of regular, working class musicians and others out of work, record stores shuttered, new bands never signed.”

Yes, that’s right — students go broke and can’t pay for their education because they are being sued while working-class musicians don’t get signed — all because of filesharing. Who writes this stuff?

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