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University officials said Harvard has not received any subpoenas from legal representatives of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), in spite of a recent spate of legal actions that the organization has taken against college students nationwide for sharing copyrighted music files...
...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...
...after receiving more than 200 requests for identities. "We're not just going to roll over and allow this kind of process." Not every ISP feels the same. Comcast, the cable-TV company that sells high-speed Internet access on the side, has announced its intention to cooperate with RIAA. So has Chicago's Loyola University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, by contrast, have gone to court to protect students' identities...