Sun 30 Jan 2005
Peter Sheil ‘77 has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel of Movielink. In other words, Sheil is one of the folks who Jim Kolesar ‘72 is worried might end up suing Williams students who, uh, have a loose interpretation of copyright law. Kolesar
said anyone sharing copyrighted material is at risk for being sued, adding that parents with teenagers at home might not realize what their children are up to.
Say it ain’t so Jim! Actually, I am fairly clueless about what my 8 year old is up to . . .
January 31st, 2005 at 12:02 am
Ah yes… copyright issues. I quickly learned my lesson after sharing approximately 100 gigabytes of movies on p2p software (DC++) and subsequently receiving an e-mail from Kolesar that I had been caught by someone over at the MPAA (or someone like that).
Needless to say, the threat was/is pretty real. I know I won’t be sharing files like that again.