Film-Industry Executives Quiz Campus Officials About File Sharing

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

From: digital-copyright Digest 2 Sep 2004 15:00:00 -0000 Issue 415

In Phone Calls, Film-Industry Executives Quiz Campus Officials About File
Sharing By BROCK READ, Chronicle.com, August 31, 2004
http://chronicle.com/free/2004/08/2004083103n.htm

"Deans and provosts who answer their telephones in the coming months may
be surprised to find themselves fielding questions about campus file
sharing from high-ranking film-industry officials. Industry
representatives are hitting the phones as part of an aggressive new
campaign to persuade college administrators to step up their efforts to
curtail online movie piracy."

Interview With a Victim of the RIAA

By Thomas Mennecke, Slyck.com,  September 1, 2004
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=3D557

"On June 26, 2003, the RIAA began one of the most controversial moves of
its career. Faced with the mounting growth of file- sharing and P2P
networking, the RIAA began what no industry on this scale has ever done
before - it began suing its own customers in the thousands."

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825