Word: riaa
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...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that it will file lawsuits today against 405 college students, including 11 at Harvard, for copyright infringement carried out over a special network used by academic institutions...
...defendants in this latest initiative are students at 18 colleges and universities nationwide. According to an RIAA press release, the lawsuits target users of a file-sharing program known as “i2hub,” which allows students to upload and download files at very high speeds through Internet2, a high-speed academic network that directly connects users at participating colleges and universities...
...RIAA set a maximum of 25 students at each school for this round of lawsuits, spokeswoman Jenni R. Engebretsen said, but only 11 at Harvard were targeted...
...There are certainly extreme cases of file sharing, and we are filing suits...against the most egregious users of Internet2,” Engebretsen said. She said the RIAA hopes that these lawsuits will “attract the attention” of other file-sharing users and encourage them to cease their illegal behavior...
...illegal. Downloading copyrighted recordings off Kazaa is too easy—too much a natural extension of the rest of our uses for the Internet and too far removed from any plausible impact on music industry sales (50 Cent probably isn’t starving). Hard as the RIAA might try, their ad campaign and their well-publicized lawsuits have simply failed to convince people that file-sharing is bad—instead, they’ve merely created a backdrop of fear over which these activities continue to take place...