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Your Tuesday couldn't have been nearly as exciting as mine.
Round 1: The RIAA Attacks
Sent to Willamette:
VIA EMAIL
September 19, 2006
John P. Callahan
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, OR 97301 US
Re: Copyright infringement
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture, and distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies in matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.
We believe a user on your network is offering an infringing sound recording for download through a peer to peer application. We have attached below the details of the infringing activity.
We have a good faith belief that this activity is not authorized by copyright owners, their agent, or the law. We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorized activity. Specifically, we request that you remove or disable access to the infringing sound recording.
We believe it is in everyone's interest for music consumers to be better educated about the subject of copyright law and music. In addition to taking steps to notify this network user about the illegal nature of this activity, we encourage you to refer him/her to the MUSIC Coalition's website at www.musicunited.org. The site contains valuable information about what's legal and what's not when it comes to copying music.
You should understand that this letter constitutes notice to you that this network user may be liable for the infringing activity occurring on your network. In addition, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if you ignore this notice, your institution may also be liable for any resulting infringement. This letter does not constitute a waiver of any right to recover damages incurred by virtue of any such unauthorized activities, and such rights as well as claims for other relief are expressly retained. Moreover, this letter does not constitute a waiver of our members' right to sue the user at issue for copyright infringement.
Thank you in advance for your prompt assistance in this matter. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at antipiracy2@riaa.com, via telephone at (202) 775-0101, or via mail at RIAA, 1330 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C., 20036. Please reference Case ID A180359228 in any response or communication regarding this infringement.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Landis
Online Copyright Protection
RIAA
Infringement details:
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First Found: 19 Sep 2006 12:08:42 EDT (GMT -0400)
Last Found: 19 Sep 2006 12:09:43 EDT (GMT -0400)
Network: BTPeers
IP Address: 158.104.220.118
IP Port: 5345
Protocol: BitTorrent
List of infringing content:
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FERGIE LONDON BRIDGE
KILLERS WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG
NELLY FURTADO PROMISCUOUS
RIHANNA UNFAITHFUL
SNOW PATROL CHASING CARS
Sent to me, from Willamette:
Colin N Armstrong -
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) working on behalf of its
members has informed Willamette that it has reason to believe that you
have material on your computer that is in violation of federal copyright
law. The transmission or storage of all reproduced, distributed,
altered, enhanced and/or manipulated copyrighted material, including
software, images, music and movies, must have the prior written
permission of the copyright holder.
To protect yourself, WITS strongly recommends that you immediately
remove the offending files from your computer. Since almost all of the
material downloaded and distributed using KaZaA, Morpheus or other
peer-to-peer (P2P) applications is in fact protected by copyright, WITS
also recommends that you remove the software from your computer.
Please be aware that you are potentially personally liable for any
infringement of copyright law. If you download or distribute
copyrighted materials using Willamette's Internet connection, you may
face judicial sanctions or other appropriate disciplinary actions,
including loss of Internet privileges and possible criminal or civil
penalties for intellectual property theft. Specifically, should the
University receive a second notice regarding copyrighted material on
your computer, WITS will disconnect it from the campus network and
inform the Judicial Board.
When you registered for a Willamette network account, you agreed to the
University's Policy on Appropriate Use of the Campus Computing
Facilities and Network (located on the web at
http://www.willamette.edu/wu/policy/network.htm). It is important that
you be familiar with this information. Downloading or distributing
copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder is
forbidden. You should also remember that you are responsible for the
use of your computer, regardless of whether you were the user at the
time of the violation.
I suppose that's just some more proof that I need to hide away for a while.
Tuesday 19 September: Colin receives his first legal brief
Round 1: The RIAA Attacks
Sent to Willamette:
VIA EMAIL
September 19, 2006
John P. Callahan
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, OR 97301 US
Re: Copyright infringement
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture, and distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies in matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.
We believe a user on your network is offering an infringing sound recording for download through a peer to peer application. We have attached below the details of the infringing activity.
We have a good faith belief that this activity is not authorized by copyright owners, their agent, or the law. We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorized activity. Specifically, we request that you remove or disable access to the infringing sound recording.
We believe it is in everyone's interest for music consumers to be better educated about the subject of copyright law and music. In addition to taking steps to notify this network user about the illegal nature of this activity, we encourage you to refer him/her to the MUSIC Coalition's website at www.musicunited.org. The site contains valuable information about what's legal and what's not when it comes to copying music.
You should understand that this letter constitutes notice to you that this network user may be liable for the infringing activity occurring on your network. In addition, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if you ignore this notice, your institution may also be liable for any resulting infringement. This letter does not constitute a waiver of any right to recover damages incurred by virtue of any such unauthorized activities, and such rights as well as claims for other relief are expressly retained. Moreover, this letter does not constitute a waiver of our members' right to sue the user at issue for copyright infringement.
Thank you in advance for your prompt assistance in this matter. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at antipiracy2@riaa.com, via telephone at (202) 775-0101, or via mail at RIAA, 1330 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C., 20036. Please reference Case ID A180359228 in any response or communication regarding this infringement.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Landis
Online Copyright Protection
RIAA
Infringement details:
----------------------------------------------
First Found: 19 Sep 2006 12:08:42 EDT (GMT -0400)
Last Found: 19 Sep 2006 12:09:43 EDT (GMT -0400)
Network: BTPeers
IP Address: 158.104.220.118
IP Port: 5345
Protocol: BitTorrent
List of infringing content:
----------------------------------------------
FERGIE LONDON BRIDGE
KILLERS WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG
NELLY FURTADO PROMISCUOUS
RIHANNA UNFAITHFUL
SNOW PATROL CHASING CARS
Sent to me, from Willamette:
Colin N Armstrong -
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) working on behalf of its
members has informed Willamette that it has reason to believe that you
have material on your computer that is in violation of federal copyright
law. The transmission or storage of all reproduced, distributed,
altered, enhanced and/or manipulated copyrighted material, including
software, images, music and movies, must have the prior written
permission of the copyright holder.
To protect yourself, WITS strongly recommends that you immediately
remove the offending files from your computer. Since almost all of the
material downloaded and distributed using KaZaA, Morpheus or other
peer-to-peer (P2P) applications is in fact protected by copyright, WITS
also recommends that you remove the software from your computer.
Please be aware that you are potentially personally liable for any
infringement of copyright law. If you download or distribute
copyrighted materials using Willamette's Internet connection, you may
face judicial sanctions or other appropriate disciplinary actions,
including loss of Internet privileges and possible criminal or civil
penalties for intellectual property theft. Specifically, should the
University receive a second notice regarding copyrighted material on
your computer, WITS will disconnect it from the campus network and
inform the Judicial Board.
When you registered for a Willamette network account, you agreed to the
University's Policy on Appropriate Use of the Campus Computing
Facilities and Network (located on the web at
http://www.willamette.edu/wu/policy/network.htm). It is important that
you be familiar with this information. Downloading or distributing
copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder is
forbidden. You should also remember that you are responsible for the
use of your computer, regardless of whether you were the user at the
time of the violation.
I suppose that's just some more proof that I need to hide away for a while.
Tuesday 19 September: Colin receives his first legal brief