The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has voluntarily given the recording industry the Internet protocol addresses of students who allegedly have illegally downloaded music, not waiting for the RIAA to subpoena those records. Most U.S. colleges have done likewise, although the University of Wisconsin said last month it would not cooperate with the recording industry unless subpoenas were issued.
"The recording industry's three-month-old enforcement effort is a ploy to scare students into accepting pre-lawsuit settlements; the industry saves money by not having to take students to court", a student spokesman said. " They're strong-arming people into this." Earlier the University of Nebraska had a history of defying the RIAA. What happened? What is this university thinking? Now they are naming names (well, sort of).
And on March 2, 2007, the University of Nebraska allowed StratCom on campus with its cosponsorship of the “Space and TeleCom Law Conference”. StratCom?.... that sponsored the now-infamous “warrantless wiretap” program conducted by the National Security Agency?.... In the sanctuary of a college campus?
What next?
