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Thursday February 22, 2007 3:30 pm
RIAA Cracks Down on Illegal Music Downloads
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has decided to aggressively pursue students who illegally download from the music industry. The only problem is that colleges aren’t really listening. The top five schools targeted are Purdue, and the Universities of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ohio, Tennessee and South Carolina, since they have gotten more than 1,000 complaints over this past school year. Add to that to almost 15,000 total collegians, an amount that has tripled since last year.
The RIAA wants each of the colleges to dispense discipline on their own campuses, which can vary from e-mail warnings to a semester of suspension. Most of the downloads come from the services of AresWarez, BitTorrent, eDonkey and other programs that operate on Gnutella and FastTrack.
Purdue received 1,068 complaints this year as opposed to 37 in 2006, but say they rarely contact offenders because it is simply too much bother and those caught rarely repeat their mini-crime.
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