[Dixielandjazz] Music changes because of technology!

[Vilcad (Ron Gable)]

An excerpt from a New York Time's article, another piece of a puzzle that
effects all of our music including OKOM.  The entire article is posted on
the PDF pages on our website at: www.jazzadvocate.com.



In the most severe crackdown yet on online piracy at a college campus, the
United States Naval Academy has seized 100 computers from students who are
suspected of having downloaded unauthorized copies of music files over the
Internet.



The academy was one of 2,300 colleges to receive a letter from entertainment
industry organizations last month requesting help in cracking down on
unauthorized file swapping. The record industry largely attributes the
decline in CD sales over the last 18 months to digital piracy, and has
brought increasing pressure on institutions in a position to identify and
discipline the down-loaders.



Universities have been grappling with how to stem the rapid flow of
unauthorized media files across their networks ever since the birth of
Napster, the program that popularized file swapping. Students have been
quick to take advantage of the free, high-speed connections to the Internet
in dormitory rooms to download music and movies, an activity that, in
addition to being illegal, has slowed traffic on many university networks.



Other schools have resisted monitoring Internet traffic because of academic
freedom and privacy issues, education officials said yesterday. But the
military academies also have other priorities.



"They hold the midshipman to a higher standard," said a naval officer, who
declined to be identified because of the continuing investigation of the
students at the academy. "They are the next generation of combat leaders.
They can't be allowed to violate federal law and think that it's O.K."

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