Music labels target college piracy suspects with settlement offer

doesn't monitor my computer but for those who do live on campus When it comes to downloading music online i really believe more than 90% of people at this university or at least 60% of Americans Do it on a daily bases or at least once in their lives. Online makes it so easy to just do it that you download without ever thinking of the consequences. Realistically no one thinks they will get caught I mean you are in your room alone no one else knows you downloading songs and movies you think you are safe, it's easy than running into a music store and grabbing a CD and running out. You think you have a chance of getting caught by security tapes and employees of the store but who will ever catch you online in your room? Well apparently you aren't safe. People forget everything you do online is basically open to the public if you look hard enough and the "Internet police" for the music you illegally download will see what you are doing even though they aren't in the same room and you will get into trouble. It is scary thinking that even though you are alone in your room there are many many people that can see everything your doing through the Internet, i mean they can't see into your room but they can see into your computer. I also love that Umass Amherst is one of the schools that get into trouble but i mean come on University of Arizona Umass Amherst, they each have like 25,000 students so it is so much easier to focus on the bigger schools than to even bother looking at Westfield state or umass Lowell who have 5-10,000 at the most. Ever feel like your being targeted? well that's cause you are. They look at the bigger schools so they can sue 35 people as they are currently doing at Umass than only finding 5 people at Westfield. Honestly our OIT doesn't have to give up the names of our students until they are subpoena but as they proved two years ago with the whole i2hub thing they really don't mind handing over their students name. Its funny how BU fights for their students rights yet our Administration staff rather let us be sued than help us out, Is this making them look better? I feel that this is all connected to the people looking through our computers to see us. I don't live on campus so OIT shuts you off and hands over your name to the Music companies so really you have at least two different eyes on you at all time when you are on your Internet. Wicked fun i know. Honestly i am not trying to argue that these students have a right to illegally download music, i just find it in a way creepy knowing that my Internet is always monitored. If i was to say something bad about the president then a red flag would automatically go up and whatever it was i wrote in a blog or something else would be sent to the FBI, really we have so much less privacy than if i was to send a letter with the same text to my friend. No one would go through my mail unless they had a prior suspicion but without any suspicion people will go through my emails, Privacy is so much less expected on the Internet than if i were walking down the street. Why is this okay?