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A few years ago, when Chuck Severance and I were still doing our TV show, I interviewed 4 MSU students about file sharing -- then it was all about Napster. In the course of a one hour interview, I tried and tried to get them to "get it." I asked if you'd written a book of great poetry or recipes, and you discovered that the entire book was up on the Web, wouldn't you take umbrage? Grudgingly a couple of them accepted that maybe pride of authorship and intellectual property rights were real, important considerations. But they still planned to download music. This was years ago. Margaret, your niece has grown up believing that if you can find it on the Net, it's free. If you succeed in your educational mission, I'll donate $50 to your favorite charity. :-) /rich PS -- Never mind the AUP, I think federal copyright law and specifically DMCA are fearsome enough. On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:01:56 -0400, Margaret Wilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Thanks for the fast response, Wendy. I figured this was the case. I'm > hoping this will help my friend win the battle against P2P apps with her > daughter. :-) > > Margaret > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wendy Tate > To: 'Margaret Wilson' ; [log in to unmask] > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:42 PM > Subject: RE: [MSUNAG] Acceptable Use Question: P2P File Sharing Apps > > > > > Hi Margaret; > > > > I don't think there's anything in the MSU AUP, but the MERIT/Michnet AUP is > included in the MSU AUP. It has three very specific admonitions. > > "Use should be consistent with guiding ethical statements and accepted > community standards. Use of the Services for malicious, fraudulent, or > misrepresentative purposes is not acceptable. > > The Services may not be used in ways that violate applicable laws or > regulations. > > Users must respect the legal protection applied to programs, data, > photographs, music, written documents and other material as provided by > copyright, trademark, patent, licensure and other proprietary rights > mechanisms. > > I would say that sharing copyrighted music falls under the third rule; but > the courts are still hashing that out, aren't they? > > Good night, > > Wendy > > > > > Wendy Tate > > Network Coordinator > > Department of Economics > > W. 147 Owen Hall > > Michigan State University > > East Lansing, MI 48825-1109 > > 517-355-1816 > > [log in to unmask] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Margaret Wilson > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:39 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] Acceptable Use Question: P2P File Sharing Apps > > > > > A friend's daughter is into sharing music using WinMX, which I've recently > learned is one of these P2P file-sharing apps. Off course, she's using it > for sharing copyrighted music. They have dial-up access via MichNet through > one of the school systems. My question is, is there anything in the > Acceptable Use Policy which prohibits such use? I'll read the policy if > need be, but I was wondering if anyone knows off the top of their heads. ?? > > > > > > Thx! > > > > > > Margaret