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...contrast, three local schools—Boston College, Boston University and MIT—recently announced that they do not intend to comply with recent RIAA subpoenas filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, based on a component of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which states that subpoenas must be issued by a court within 100 miles of their subject...
...RIAA first took legal action against university students in April when it sued undergraduates at Michigan Technological University, Princeton University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for allegedly engaging in illegal file sharing. Several more suits have followed in the ensuing months...
...recent round of subpoenas was only the first wave of a larger effort to bring illegal file sharers to court, an RIAA spokesperson said...
While she would not say precisely what criteria the RIAA was using to determine whom to sue or how many law suits had be filed to date, she said the first round of suits were targeted toward the most extreme abusers of file-trading software. Future rounds of law suits will probably target slightly smaller-scale misusers, she said...
...DMCA requires Harvard to notify network users thought to be file sharers and to suspend network access of repeat offenders for a year—a policy that former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 put into effect shortly after the RIAA launched its suits against students last April...