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...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a new round of 745 copyright infringement lawsuits against users of online file-sharing programs, including three Harvard network users, the organization announced Friday. According to RIAA Spokesperson Jenni R. Engebretsen, the new litigation includes 75 suits targeting users of university networks for allegedly sharing copyrighted music on i2hub, a software program that allows users to upload and download files over the intercollegiate network Internet2. These lawsuits were filed in “John Doe” format, meaning that the RIAA knows only the IP addresses of the defendants...
...Sept. 28 that his company would “convert eDonkey’s user base to an online content retailer operating in a closed P2P environment.” He did so in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) which threatened immediate litigation unless MetaMachine blocked the sharing of copyrighted content on its networks. Since a June 27, 2005 Supreme Court ruling against Grokster gave record labels and movie studios the green light to sue file-sharing services, the RIAA has been busy with a letter writing campaign to shut...
...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed 757 new copyright infringement lawsuits, including three against Harvard users, as part of its anti-music-piracy efforts, the organization announced late last month. Defendants in the new round of litigation include 64 users of university networks including the three from Harvard, RIAA spokesperson Jenni R. Engebretsen said. The lawsuits accuse all of the university-network defendants of using i2hub—a software program that allows users to upload and download files over the intercollegiate network Internet2—to illegally share copyrighted music. “These lawsuits are part...
...each instance, the RIAA only had the IP addresses of the involved students and thus filed “John Doe” lawsuits. These anonymous lawsuits were then followed with subpoenas that compelled administrators to release the identities of the students using the IP addresses in question...
...RIAA spokeswoman Jenni R. Engebretsen wrote in an e-mail that it is now imperative to educate students about piracy laws...