1. What is the Do It Legally campaign?
2. What is the Do It Legally campaign trying to do?
3. Why should UGA students stop downloading music illegally?
4. Does UGA police its network for students who are downloading files illegally?
5. What happens if the RIAA finds a violator on the UGA network?
6. How many UGA students have been sued by the RIAA?
7. Do you personally download illegally?
8. What's the biggest benefit to downloading legally?
9. Are there any drawbacks to legal alternatives?
10. Do legal alternatives require any special software downloads?
11. What price should students expect to pay for legal downloads?
12. What can you do with music you get from legal alternatives?
13. What legal options do Mac users have?
14. Where can students go to get more information about the campaign or about legal downloading alternatives?
15. What is the UGA Committee on Digital Media Downloading?

1. Q: What is the Do It Legally campaign?
A: Do It Legally is a student-led campaign supported by the Committee on Digital Media Downloading. The campaign's goals are to inform UGA students that illegal downloading is an unacceptable behavior and to promote legal downloading alternatives.

2. Q: What is the Do It Legally campaign trying to do?
A: The campaign aims to reach out to students at UGA to educate them about the consequences associated with downloading music, movies and television shows illegally on the UGA network. The risk for getting caught is real, and the campaign will give students real--not exaggerated--examples of what can happen if they get caught. In addition, Do It Legally wants to make it easier for students to choose legal downloading alternatives by providing ways to learn about and use the variety of legal downloading options currently available.

3. Q: Why should UGA students stop downloading music illegally?
A: It is illegal! But, many students don't realize how easy it is for the RIAA to find them on a college network and how expensive even settling out of court can be. Pre-litigation settlements usually still cost students somewhere between $2,000 and $6,000. On top of that, there are so many great legal alternatives now, that there is really no reason not to switch to a safer, equally as good--and most importantly legal--way to get your music.

4. Q: Does UGA police its network for students who are downloading files illegally?
A: No, UGA does not actively seek violators on its network. However, the RIAA is targeting college campuses and actively looking for illegal downloaders on them, and UGA is no exception.

5. Q: What happens if the RIAA finds a violator on the UGA network?
A: The RIAA will contact UGA and provide the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of people they have found downloading files illegally on its network. UGA's policy is to identify the student, faculty or staff member based on the IP address and forward the RIAA's pre-litigation information to that person. UGA doesn't release the names to the RIAA; however, if the RIAA subpoenas the names and contact information of the individual, UGA is required by law to provide it.

6. Q: How many UGA students have been sued by the RIAA?
A: The RIAA sent 37 pre-litigation letters to the university in 2007, and their complaints of violations continued during this academic year, totaling more than 300.

7. Q: Do you personally download illegally?
A: It's really important to us as a public relations campaign team to practice what we preach. So, no, we do not download illegally. Several of our team members have been "legal downloaders" for awhile, and others are just coming around. But, we each have our favorite legal downloading program, and we're excited to share those with other students.

8. Q: What's the biggest benefit to downloading legally?
A: The biggest benefit is obviously that you don't run the risk of being sued by the RIAA and losing thousands of dollars! That's a lot more than you'll spend on any legal downloading alternative. There really is a legal downloading alternative to fit anyone's music needs, whether you want to transfer your music to an MP3 player, just download songs to listen to on your computer while you work or hang out, or preview music before you buy it.

9. Q: Are there any drawbacks to legal alternatives?
A: Some students seem to think there are. Even though it's true that some programs don't work with iPods or won't allow you to burn the music onto CDs, other legal programs do! Students just need to explore the different legal options and find the one that works best for them.

10. Q: Do legal alternatives require any special software downloads?
A: It depends on the program. For example, you can listen to tailored, streaming radio at Pandora.com or LastFM.com without downloading anything, and many of the single song or album download programs only require Windows Media Player. However, some programs do require that you download a specific player or program.

11. Q: What price should students expect to pay for legal downloads?
A: Price varies depending upon which program you use. If you use a PC, you can download songs from Ruckus.com and SpiralFrog.com for free. Most single song purchases range from 79 cents to $1.29, and albums can be purchased for around $10. Subscription services typically cost $10-15 monthly with many offering unlimited downloads or tiered pricing options.

12. Q: What can you do with music you get from legal alternatives?
A: How you can use downloaded music depends on the program. Programs like iTunes allow you to easily transfer files to your iPod. Amazon MP3 and eMusic offer music that can be played on your computer or any type of MP3 player. Some services like Napster and Ruckus offer music that can be transferred to an MP3 player at an additional--yet small--fee. Other programs are more like online music libraries that only allow you to play your music on your computer.

13. Q: What legal options do Mac users have?
A: The most popular legal alternative for Mac and iPod users is of course iTunes. You can purchase individual songs or entire albums from iTunes as well as other programs like Amazon MP3 or eMusic. There are also subscription services like Napster and Rhapsody that work with the Mac operating system. Because Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) is currently the primary protection measure for legal alternatives, the services are limited in being able to provide for Mac users. However, Ruckus and other companies indicate that they are working to become Mac compatible in the future.

14. Q: Where can students go to get more information about the campaign or about legal downloading alternatives?
A: We have a great campaign Web site in the works at www.uga.edu/doitlegally. You can also check us out on Facebook, in the "Do It Legally" group. You can find links to legal alternatives, a listing of our events and more general information about media downloading.

15. Q: What is the UGA Committee on Digital Media Downloading?
A: The Committee on Digital Media Downloading formed in fall 2007 to review the different options for bringing legal alternatives to campus. The committee worked with SGA to approve Ruckus as the chosen program and continues to work on the issue of illegal downloading on campus through our campaign.