Friday July 8, 2010
Fort Lewis College
1000 Rim Drive
Durango, Colorado 81301
Re: Copyright infringement
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of
America, Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a
trade association whose member companies create, manufacture, and
distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound
recordings sold in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we
submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member
companies in matters involving the infringement of their sound
recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights
on the Internet.
We believe a user on your network is offering an infringing sound
recording for download through a peer to peer application. We have
attached below the details of the infringing activity.
We have a good faith belief that this activity is not authorized by
copyright owners, their agent, or the law. We are asking for your
immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorized activity.
Specifically, we request that you remove or disable access to the
infringing sound recording.
We believe it is in everyone's interest for music consumers to be better
educated about the subject of copyright law and music. In addition to
taking steps to notify this network user about the illegal nature of
this activity, we encourage you to refer him/her to the MUSIC Coalitions
website at www.musicunited.org. The site contains valuable information
about what's legal and what's not when it comes to copying music.
You should understand that this letter constitutes notice to you that
this network user may be liable for the infringing activity occurring on
your network. In addition, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
if you ignore this notice, your institution may also be liable for any
resulting infringement. This letter does not constitute a waiver of any
right to recover damages incurred by virtue of any such unauthorized
activities, and such rights as well as claims for other relief are
expressly retained. Moreover, this letter does not constitute a waiver
of our members' right to sue the user at issue for copyright
infringement.
It is likely that this DMCA notice is not the first you have received
from us or other copyright owners. Interested in exploring
technological options to potentially receiving fewer of these notices?
Many universities have implemented technological anti-piracy tools and
report receiving fewer copyright infringement notices. Please see here
for a listing of some of the businesses that offer network management
tools to higher education institutions:
http://www.musicunited.org/12_Resources.html
Thank you in advance for your prompt assistance in this matter. If you
have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at
antipiracy2@riaa.com, via telephone at 1-800-223-2328, or via mail at
RIAA, 1025 F Street, NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20004. Please
reference Case ID '####' in any response or communication regarding this
infringement.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Landis
Online Copyright Protection
RIAA
List of infringing content
copyrighted content title
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INFRINGEMENT DETAIL
Infringing Work : copyrighted content title
Filename : copyrighted content file name First found (UTC):
2008-09-04T13:45:05.77Z Last found (UTC): 2008-09-04T13:45:05.77Z
Filesize : 5962291 bytes IP Address: xxx.xx.xxx.xxx IP Port: #####
Network: network name
Protocol: protocol