Discuss “Panel discusses RIAA”

Analogies flew fast and furious at the Public Debate on Electronic File Sharing hosted by the University of Pittsburgh last Friday.

In an October article, The Tartan reported that an undisclosed amount of students were facing subpoenas from the Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA returns to campus,” Oct. 10, 2005). Now, four months later, the University of Pittsburgh invited two involved attorneys to discuss the issue in a public forum.

For their annual “Computer Science Day,” the University of Pittsburgh invited two experts to work with two undergraduate debate all-stars in an event that moderator Gordon Mitchell, an associate professor of communication at the University of Pittsburgh, hoped would “move past the battle-royale...