In the RIAA's continued campaign to fight piracy at universities, they have targeted 64 people across 17 universities for illegally sharing copyrighted music over the advanced high-speed Internet2 using i2hub file sharing software. As students have just returned to campus, this is the ideal timing for the RIAA to try and get their message across that students at college are still at risk of facing legal action if they use file sharing as method of getting 'free' music.
As usual, the RIAA has also targeted a further 693 individuals for also sharing copyrighted music without authorisation. Some networks targeted include eDonkey, Grokster, Kazaa and Limewire. So far, the RIAA has sued over 14,800 users in the US for illegal file sharing since September 2003. 560 of these lawsuits were filed across 39 campuses this year alone on students using the high-speed Internet2. Thanks to Wesociety for using our news submit to submit the following news:
|
The latest round of litigation targeted 64 people at 17 universities, accusing them of using the i2hub online file-sharing application to make music files available over the super-fast network, the Recording Industry Association of America said Thursday. The RIAA's press release can be read here. |
It would be interesting to know how the RIAA gets hold of student's details in order to file a lawsuit, especially since the computers in most universities have private IP ranges. Then again, chances are that the students being targeted include those who use dedicated PCs for projects or who have PCs in their dorms, which would make it easier for an inspector to compare a song list log against the list of songs stored on PCs.
Feel free to discuss and find out more about the legal issues of file sharing along with legal alternatives on our Music Download, Peer to Peer (P2P) & Legal Issues forum.
Wesociety wrote: It looks like the RIAA "sue the customer" campaign continues. Every time I read about these legal threats it makes me NOT want to buy a CD.
Source: Post Gazette - Business News
