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THURSDAY
January 8, 2009
Vol. 116, No. 77 | Athens, Georgia
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RIAA drops mass downloading suits
Record, labels
pick up cases
By CAREY O’NEIL
The Red & Black
The Recording Industry
Association of America decided
to end new lawsuits against peo
ple caught sharing music on the
Internet, a decision that comes
millions of dollars too late for
two University students.
“We discontinued initiating
new lawsuits in August,” Mitch
Bainwol, chairman and CEO of
the RIAA, wrote in a Dec. 23 let
Humidity
damages
museum
artwork
By HAYLEY PETERSON
The Red & Black
About 25 paintings and
several pieces of decorative
art weathered damages
after a faulty HVAC valve
spiked humidity levels in a
storage room at the
Georgia Museum of Art.
“We don’t yet know the
extent of the damage,”
GMOA Director William
Eiland said in a phone
interview.
A museum conservator
is monitoring the affected
artwork during the next
several days as the moist
ened paint dries.
The conservator will be
able to provide a more
detailed assessment of the
sustained damages by early
next week, Eiland said.
“Paint loss means the
integrity of the painting
has been compromised to
the point of being dam
aged,” Eiland said.
One such loss was a
mid-19th century American
painting by artist William
Haseltine.
“Some other works
are merely wet,” said
Eiland. “When the moisture
goes away they may be
Recovering works
include “Dogtown” by
Marsden Hartley, a paint
ing attributed to Eastman
Johnson and a 19th centu
ry hunt board from the
Piedmont region of
Georgia.
Eiland said a hunt board
is a tall table that “leg
end has it” enabled hunt
ers to grab food and drink
without dismounting from
their horses.
He said the table
“appeared to have water
damage on its surface.”
The broken valve
was discovered by a
museum security supervi
sor during a routine check
on Jan. 4.
The broken valve caused
moist air to flow into the
storage room where a vari
ety of paintings, furniture
pieces and sculptures are
housed.
Eiland said he cannot
estimate the cost of the
damages until the conser
vator finishes appraising
each compromised piece.
He said he is working
with the museum’s insur
ance company to cover the
losses.
The restoration process
must be completed before
the end of March, he said,
when the museum will be
sequestering the collection
in preparation for its
reopening in 2011.
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ter explaining the resolution to
work with Internet service pro
viders to create programs against
copyright offenders. “In just the
last couple of months, we have
seen more notices forwarded
from ISPs to subscribers than we
filed lawsuits over the previous
five years.”
But the decision offers little
consolation for a pair of University
students.
Imaad Rashied, a junior from
Duluth, faces a lawsuit against
five record companies, including
Warner Bros. Records and
Sony BMG Music, over copy
righted music he downloaded
and shared on the Internet,
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A Matthew Stafford (left), Mark Richt (center) and Knowshon Moreno sit at a press conference on Wednesday. Stafford
and Moreno announced they will be leaving the University to enter the NFL draft.
Bulldogs leave Georgia confident for NFL draft
By TYLER ESTEP
The Red & Black
Knowshon Moreno is pretty confident
about getting drafted.
The now-former Georgia tailback, who
announced Wednesday he is leaving for the
NFL draft alongside quarterback Matthew
Stafford, didn’t even file his papers to the NFL
Advisory Committee before making his deci
sion.
The committee, which tells prospective
DANIEL SHIREY | The Red a Black
A Quarterback Joe Cox is the front
runner to take over for Matthew
Stafford next season.
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ON THE WEB
Interview with students
documents filed in September.
“Last August I got a letter
from the RIAA and the University
telling me that they were suing
me for 1,728 songs and they
wanted $720 per song more
than $1.2 million,” Rashied said
in a phone interview Tuesday.
Rashied said the University
gave him the option of signing an
admission of guilt statement and
receiving a reprimand, or appear
ing before the student judiciary.
Rashied opted for the reprimand,
Million Dollar Smiles
Patient Cox finally reaches first string
Joe Cox has played the
waiting game for more
than four years now.
He must be a virtuous fel
low because I know I wouldn’t
havefhis kind of patience. My
brain fumes when I see more
than four ca#s sitting in a
Zaxby’s drive-through line.
" Many quarterbacks in his
situation would have trans
ferred. I know I would have.
But Cox stayed. Patiently.
Now that quarterback
Matthew Stafford has
declared for the NFL draft, it’s
Cox’s position to lose.
For Cox, being excited
would say the least (he used
the term “excited” or “excit
ing” in some way, shape or
form 14 times in Wednesday’s
press conference). His time
has come and, for him, it was
well worth the wait.
“I honestly never expected
it to come like this,” Cox said.
“I was always happy to stay. I
was ready for any situation.”
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draftees what round they might be selected in
if they enter, told Stafford he could expect to
be a first-rounder, but never heard from
Moreno.
“I just didn’t get them in on time,” he said,
laughing.
While he doesn’t have any official word
and said the University told him
that his information would be
protected from the RIAA.
“I’m very proud of the
University because the RIAA
asked for names because EITS
has all that info,” Rashied said.
“The University refused to give it
up until the RIAA subpoenaed
for the info.”
After contacted by the RIAA,
Rashied called the association,
which attempted to contact him
through the University in May,
offering him a $3,000 out of court
settlement. But the University
took a month to notify Rashied,
prompting the RIAA to ask for a
$4,000 settlement.
“That was the University’s
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It didn’t matter that for four
years Cox never saw much of
the limelight. Sure, there were
his Colorado game heroics in
2006, but since then it’s been
Stafford-this, Stafford-that.
After Stafford and
Knowshon Moreno, both
dressed in sharp suits, left their
press conference Wednesday, a
lot of cameramen and reporters
followed them out. The report
ers who stayed saw Cox make
his way to Georgia’s media
room, wearing an Elite-11 camp
hoodie and a backwards cap,
and possibly feeling a little ner
vous about his first major inter
view as the top dog on
Georgia’s depth chart at
quarterback.
It was about as informal of
White House Honors
page 3
Two University professors got to
hang out at 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave. at a ceremony honoring their
research.
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fault. They didn’t let me know in
time,” Rashied said, and that he
told the RIAA, “I can’t afford to
give you $4,000, sue me for the
$1.2 million.”
Rashied is not alone in his
lawsuit against the major record
labels. Jessica Umbaugh a junior
from Cumming, is facing off
against eight record labels for
songs she downloaded and
shared using a peer-to-peer ser
vice called Limewire, according
to U.S. District Court documents
filed in December.
“I didn’t know my computer
was sharing,” Umbaugh said in a
phone interview Tuesday.
See RIAA, Page 3
from the NFL, Moreno, who rushed for the
most yards for a Bulldog freshman not named
Herschel Walker in 2007, is touted by many
experts as a mid-first round pick and the most
NFL-ready back to enter this year’s draft.
Stafford, Georgia’s all-time single season
touchdown leader, is regarded as a potential
No. 1 overall pick.
“The toughest part about this is probably
leaving my teammates,” Moreno said. “I had
See NFL, Paye 11
an interview as you get con
sidering that Moreno’s family
had reserved seats for his and
Stafford’s announcement.
“It’s been tough, waiting,”
Cox said. “I was laughing and
talking to one of my friends
and said I felt like I haven’t
played football in 10 years.
But I’m excited about it. It’s
been a fun road. I’ve had a lot
of ftm watching both of those
guys play, especially Matthew.
I’m excited for him, and I’m
excited about my chance.”
(I wasn’t joking when I said
he was excited).
When it comes to change, a
level of uncertainty arises. A
lot of people don’t like change
when they are comfortable
(see: Republicans during 2008
presidential election). But
regarding comfort zones, why
do you think so many fans
kept making excuses as to
why Stafford should stay?
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Variety 6
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Sports 9
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