Last month, a few articles were featured in the Daily Trojan, featuring piracy and 20 letters that the Recording Industry of America sent to USC. These letters were part of RIAA’s new plan to crack down on illegal downloading. 400 letters total were sent to 13 universities around the United States.
These letters offer person who receives it a “discounted rate” to settle or else by sued by the RIAA. However it is unfair the way that the RIAA chose the few students nationwide to send these letters too. People worldwide download music illegally and to pinpoint certain people randomly is unfair. There obviously needs to be a standard.
This program was intended to actually benefit students because the student is able to settle at a discounted rate without a lawsuit being filed. But it could be possible that these letters are merely a way to get students to confess to downloading music illegally. Also, although this is supposed to be a way to stop students from downloading illegally, people will always find a new way to cheat the system and download music.
Enjoy this wonderful anti-piracy rap :)
Ok so i know we went over this in class but for some reason the embedded thing won't work...here's a link
