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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...
Consider, for example, the recent notice of pending subpoena submitted to the associate Provost’s Office by the RIAA, mentioned in the Crimson on March 18th. It suggested that at least two cases of copyright infringement had been traced back to computers in the Longwood Medical Area, and that a request for the identity of the infringing parties would likely soon be filed with the courts...
...What the RIAA would like us to believe is that the as-yet unnamed culprits are guilty of the equivalent of petty theft or shoplifting. But did we react to this story in the same way we would have if we found out that a handful of our peers had been caught walking into Tower Records and swiping a recording of a Bartok piano? Probably...
...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...