SCHOOLS WARNED OF ONLINE PIRATING CRACKDOWN LOOMS ON MOVIES, MUSIC.Byline: GREG HERNANDEZ Staff Writer The movie and recording industries joined forces Thursday in stepping up their efforts to put a stop to widespread online theft of films and music by students on university campuses. The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America sent letters to 40 university presidents in 25 states asking for their cooperation in cracking down on students who are engaging in Internet theft. The students typically use a university's Local Area Network to connect with such programs as Direct Contact (DC++), MyTunes and OurTunes because they are perceived as more secure and private than peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. ``Campus LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. piracy is not new, yet the problem has taken on new urgency,'' said RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. President Cary Sherman Cary H. Sherman is currently the President of the Recording Industry Association of America. He graduated from Cornell University in 1968, and Harvard Law School in 1971.[1] References 1. ^ [1] . ``We know from past experience that bringing this problem to light can effect real change.'' The names of the schools contacted, including some in California, were not disclosed since the MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America and RIAA are seeking cooperation and do not want the letters to be viewed as punitive. This approach is far less aggressive than three years ago, when the RIAA sued the operators of four campus LAN networks. After the legal action, more than a dozen schools shut down LAN servers (1) A network operating system from IBM that runs as a server application under OS/2 and supports DOS, Windows and OS/2 clients. Originally based on LAN Manager when OS/2 was jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft, starting with LAN Server 3. after it was learned they were being used by some for music theft. Sherman said he hopes college administrators will fully evaluate their LAN systems and take steps to curtail any abuse by using blocking or filtering devices that can restrict certain activities on the system. ``Despite the progress achieved by our collaborative efforts, this remains an ever-evolving problem,'' Sherman said. ``We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus LAN systems or the toll this means of ... theft is taking on our industry.'' MPAA Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Dan Glickman Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. said the letters are meant to stop abuse. ``We are working to provide as much information as we can ... and to stay on top of emerging trends in intellectual property theft,'' Glickman said. Annual estimated losses to the movie industry have reached $3.5 billion from street sales of pirated movies alone. A study by Informa Media Group estimates that online file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. costs the industry $858 million more annually. The RIAA estimates that it loses more than $300 million yearly to piracy. greg.hernandez@dailynews.com (818) 713-3758 |
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