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Labels Move to Scan AU University Email Servers for MP3s
Posted by Ren Bucholz on Wednesday, February 19 @ 19:56:45 EST Copyright
Record labels Festival, Sony and EMI want to scan the email servers of several Australian universities in an attempt to find pirates. Citing universities and public libraries as two of the "biggest repositories of unlawful sound recordings," the music companies are asking the Australian Federal Court to force the schools to preserve all data on the servers as evidence against students.

This rare display of prescience is apparently aimed at stopping the terrible threat that "email distribution" poses to the industry. If unchecked, the Internet may be full of cold-hearted pirates like this University of Melbourne student, as recounted by the Sunday Morning Herald:

"One of the student's web pages had a list of his top 15 songs, with the following invitation: 'These are my favourites and here are the links to my MP3 file'" (emphasis added).

The University of Melbourne has resisted both the request for retention and access. It's also notable that AOL/Time-Warner is not involved, as is the case in other issues that split its copyright holder and ISP personalities.

 
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Re: Labels Move to Scan AU University Email Servers for MP3s (Score: 1)
by tompoe on Wednesday, February 19 @ 22:38:46 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.studioforrecording.org/
Hello: Is this the proper format, then, to request a scan of RIAA's servers for possibe copyright infringement of my protected documents on RIAA's email servers?


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