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This year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed suit against hundreds of college students nationwide to crack down on copyright infringement. A dozen Harvard affiliates, mostly graduate students, grooved their way into legal trouble for sharing an average of 2,300 mp3 files apiece. This was the year the music died...
Once a judge grants the request to start the discovery process, the RIAA can then subpoena the identity of the individual in question. Once an identity has been revealed, the original lawsuit is changed to include the subscriber’s name, according to information sent by Engebretsen...
With the addition of 20 new schools having students targeted for Internet2 litigation since the first wave of lawsuits in April, “the RIAA has significantly expanded the scope of its response to this egregious form of music theft popular on college campuses,” according to a press release yesterday...
According to the April 12 RIAA press release, a file-sharing application known as “i2hub” allows students to upload and download files at very high speeds via Internet2. The press release states that “i2hub” is especially attractive to students because they tend to wrongly believe their illegal file-sharing activities will not be detected in the “closed environment” of the Internet2 network...
...addition to the suits filed against college students, the RIAA press release also stated that new suits were filed against an additional 649 individuals who were illegally distributing copyrighted music via unauthorized peer-to-peer services like KaZaa, LimeWire, and Grokster...