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Students Dropping Out of School to Pay RIAA Legal Fees

By soulxtc

University of Wisconsin's Associate Dean of Student Development Jodi Thesing-Ritter makes the comment in recent article in The Spectator, the university's student newspaper. There's a disturbing comment that has been made in the University of Wisconsin's student newspaper, The Spectator, which confirms our worst fears about the RIAA's college campus piracy crackdown. The school's Associate Dean of Student Development Jodi Thesing-Ritter says that some students have dropped out of school to the exorbitant pre-litigation "settlement" fees demanded by the RIAA from those accused of illegal file-sharing. "It's been really hard to have to be the one to tell them they are facing this lawsuit," she said. Thesing-Ritter goes on to note that an undisclosed number of students have had to drop out of school in order to come up with the money to pay their legal fees.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on November 14, 2008 (boomark / email).