{"id":2997,"date":"2005-05-05T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T18:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/05\/05\/what-the-i2hub-lawsuits-are-about\/"},"modified":"2005-05-05T14:50:01","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T18:50:01","slug":"what-the-i2hub-lawsuits-are-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/05\/05\/what-the-i2hub-lawsuits-are-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What the i2hub Lawsuits are About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1103'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So we <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/04\/13#a1072\">speculated<\/a> before on why the RIAA was going after i2hub users in particular.&nbsp; Cary Sherman published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/05121\/496886.stm\">this piece<\/a> in the Pittburgh Post-Gazette.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a snippet:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">&#8220;And while the music industry can sue to help arrest the growth of<br \/>\nthis illegal activity, the universities themselves can be the most<br \/>\npowerful leaders in curbing theft of copyright materials on campus.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThrough filtering and other technical means, universities can prevent<br \/>\nthis mass piracy. Proactively, they can partner with legal music<br \/>\nservices to offer students legitimate music downloads &#8212; as have 44<br \/>\nother universities (including Penn State).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And if universities should filter, why not all ISPs?&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we speculated before on why the RIAA was going after i2hub users in particular.&nbsp; Cary Sherman published this piece in the Pittburgh Post-Gazette.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a snippet: &#8220;And while the music industry can sue to help arrest the growth of this illegal activity, the universities themselves can be the most powerful leaders in curbing theft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}