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This is a fantastic story IMHO of the RIAA shooting itself in the foot again - but what really has me intrigued is what a "song about the Swift gamma ray satellite" would sound like ?
"There is a Satellite that never goes out (of alignment with its earth station)" ?
"Swift Satellite Of Love"?
"Another Gamma Ray Satellite" ? (XTC)
From Reason Magazine http://reason.com/brickbats/bb-2003.shtml
Recorded Threats (6/24)
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent a notice to Pennsylvania State University alleging that the astronomy department was using one of its FTP sites to unlawfully distribute songs by the singer Usher. It threatened legal action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act if the school didn't remove the site, but the department couldn't find any such songs on its computers. Eventually, the system administrator realized that the department employed a professor named Peter Usher, and that the "illegal" site featured a song about the Swift gamma ray satellite, which Penn State helped design. An automated copyright crawler used by the RIAA put the two pieces of information together, prompting the threat.
Reason Magazine
"There is a Satellite that never goes out (of alignment with its earth station)" ?
"Swift Satellite Of Love"?
"Another Gamma Ray Satellite" ? (XTC)
From Reason Magazine http://reason.com/brickbats/bb-2003.shtml
Recorded Threats (6/24)
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent a notice to Pennsylvania State University alleging that the astronomy department was using one of its FTP sites to unlawfully distribute songs by the singer Usher. It threatened legal action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act if the school didn't remove the site, but the department couldn't find any such songs on its computers. Eventually, the system administrator realized that the department employed a professor named Peter Usher, and that the "illegal" site featured a song about the Swift gamma ray satellite, which Penn State helped design. An automated copyright crawler used by the RIAA put the two pieces of information together, prompting the threat.
Reason Magazine
