[CURRENT CONDITION: EXHAUSTED]

Dear College or University,

Stop playing cops for the RIAA and MPAA! Schools are under no legal obligation to do the bidding of these oppressive and downright abusive trade groups without a court order. Harvard stands strong, and encourages other schools to resist as well.

Sharing,duplicating, creating a copy of content, ideas, information, is not the same or even on par with stealing property. Television, DVDs, CDs, and even radio, were strongly opposed by those who owned and controlled the information of the age. The internet is our final battle, and will be our final victory.

Illegally downloaded songs, do not translate into lost purchases or stolen profits. Quite the contrary. The decline in music sales, correlates much more with other factors, like the increase of videogame sales, not to mention as record label profits go DOWN, artists incomes have steadily RISEN. Those who download illegally, spend MORE money on music than those who don't, but figures continue to be downright fabricated to feed the media. Copy restrictions are not about due credit, nor the interests of artists, but merely the market control and exploitation of creative work for financial gain by a few corporate giants. Copyright is the weapon wielded by the Goliath of a industry, a weapon rejected by the artists of this new generation. Criminalizing everyone with ill-conceived laws to protect an industry which refuses to adapt is harmful to society. File sharing can't be stopped. We will always find new and innovative ways to share with one another. We have embraced this name "PIRATE" propagated by their perjurious propoganda, so prepare to pillaged and plundered!


TO ALL STUDENTS:
DOWNLOAD AS A CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE