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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...
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...
...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...