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Following similar actions taken by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed lawsuits yesterday against students at 12 universities for allegedly violating copyright...
...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...
...telephone press conference on Monday, RIAA President Cary Sherman said students who believe using Internet2 shields their illegal file-sharing from being detected are mistaken...
According to Engebretsen, the new lawsuits have been filed with “John Doe” as the defendant, as in previous cases. This means that the RIAA only knows the IP addresses of the students involved, and the defendants’ names are later obtained from the colleges or universities by subpoena...