[Infowarrior] - Record exec to academic: stop criticizing us or I'll tell your university

[Richard Forno]

Record exec to academic: stop criticizing us or I'll tell your university

Andrew Dubber, who is on faculty at the University of Central England,
blogged a link to a story critical of RIAA lawsuits. Paul Birch, a British
record exec who sits on the boards of the BPI and IFPI (trade orgs that
represent the record industry in the UK and around the world) wrote him an
angry letter, telling him that he wasn't allowed to post that kind of thing
to his personal blog, because he works for a university that is funded by
the government.

Dubber offered to give him rebuttal space, and Birch took the opportunity to
complain that the record execs who ordered lawsuits against more than 20,000
music fans (in the US alone!) get angry phone-calls, emails and in-person
questions.

Dubber countered with words about how suing music fans is a bad idea, and
Birch closed with this threat:

    It expresses opinion, it¹s not factual. If you persist then I shall make
a formal complaint to the University.

    Your choice. 

And this guy wonders why record executives are perceived as bullies.

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