Word: riaa
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Both the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed copyright infringement lawsuits against students at colleges and universities nationwide who allegedly engaged in illegal file sharing...
...March, Harvard had received at least one “pre-subpoena letter” from the RIAA warning that the University would likely have to reveal one or more such names...
...April, the RIAA announced plans to file 405 new lawsuits against college students, including 11 at Harvard. This litigation specifically targeted users of Internet2, a special network used by academic institutions...
...April defendants, who attended 18 colleges and universities around the country, were accused of using a program called “i2hub” to illegally share copyrighted material through high-speed uploading and downloading over Internet2. According to an RIAA press release, they were responsible for sharing an average of over 2,300 “mp3” music files each. Some users, it said, have shared up to 3,600 such files...
...RIAA spokeswoman Jenni R. Engebretsen told The Crimson on the day the lawsuits were filed that the defendants were “the most egregious users of Internet2.” She said the litigation was meant to “attract the attention” of other file-sharing users and discourage them from continuing to pirate copyrighted material...