Oregon Attorney General files against RIAA.
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007Oregon is sticking up to the RIAA and not taking its bullshit (via).
The Oregon Attorney General, working with the University, has filed a motion in court to quash the legal move by the Recording Industry Association of America, which the University says is trying to force the educational institution to perform a legal investigation for the benefit of a private corporation. The agrieved parties ought to perform their own investigation, the University argues.
A number of the names requested are of students living in University of Oregon dorms, making it impossible to determine which of the students living there downloaded the music, representatives of the school said. The U of O is infamous for its inhumanely cramped dorm rooms, though, making it improbable that one resident could have committed such an act without the other being intimately aware.
What is sad to me about this is that the RIAA continues its tactics of calling out shit for piracy at random when confronted. This isn’t quite as dumb as government officials crying terrorism out of every window, and is certainly no straight McCarthyism, but it’s not far off, either. It’s very obvious that this organization is very frightened, out of ideas, and completely on the defensive.
Finally someone throws it back in their face. High fives to Oregon.
