So it’s been a few weeks now since RIT has started following their new DMCA policy, and it’s everything I knew it would be. Instead of a generic rant on this, I will share an adventure of a co-worker of mine. We’ll call him… Dan.
Dan got up one morning to check his email and was confused when he couldn’t connect to the server. He couldn’t check his news. He was disabled. Dan had been hit with a notice for sharing an episode of Arrested Development. One he didn’t have. He was accused, and had no internet access. He was forced to go through a limited proxy to get to an internal RIT site which had a big long shpiel about filesharing and why it’s bad and what it means that he got accused, and he had to click some “I Agree” button saying he was a bad man to get his internet connection back to full power.
Yeah, it only ate a day of his life, it doesn’t have any lasting effects, it was too early in the quarter to really mess him up. But he got hit for sharing a file he didn’t even have. This is as close as it comes to case & point. The innocent should not be punished. Irresponsible entities should not run amok…
Why can’t RIT get it right?
