From the acting CIO of UW-Madison, Ken Frazier

Mark Luker, VP of EDUCAUSE and former DoIT CIO, recently sent out an email message recommending a video produced by the Recording Rights Industry of America (RRIA) "educating students on the consequences of illegally downloading copyrighted materials..."

Educause Downloading Video

http://www.campusdownloading.com/dvd.htm#

This is an important issue and we should know about RRIA's perspective, but I respectfully disagree. I think that it is ineffective and bad public policy to threaten students with prison and quarter-million dollar fines for downloading music. We can find better ways to teach undergraduates to respect copyrights and promote creativity.

Just for fun, here's a topical tune by Weird Al Yankovic:

"Don't Download this Song"

http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/