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MP3 Warning
Be Wise...Serving Illegal Music, Video and Software is a Criminally Prosecutable Activity.
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for he is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. Proverbs 3:13-14
A Letter to the Bethel Community from Bill Doyle, VP for ITS and Judy Moseman, VP for Student Life
Bethel faculty, staff and students:
Recently a member of the Bethel community received a letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) regarding the use and sharing of digital MP3 music. As you can see, the attached letter illustrates the dangers associated with the misuse of copyrighted music. It is important for each of us to realize that even though there are Internet companies/web sites which offer free music and video downloads it is not necessarily legal to do so. It is often a direct violation of copyright laws, which carry very stiff and stringent penalties.
As members of a Christian learning community, we should encourage one another to live with integrity, according to biblical principles, and to abide by federal and state laws as well as by Bethel's computer-use policies.
Bill Doyle, Vice President for Information Technology Services
Judy Moseman, Vice President for Student Life
A Letter to the Bethel Community from a student caught by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)
