E D I T O R ' S NOTE IHEs Get New Warning on File Piracy W E ' V E WRITTEN
A NUMBER OF TIMES about the problem of illegal file sharing on college and
university networks. Several years ago when the issue first came onto the
public radar, the conventional wisdom was that colleges and universities
wouldn't be held liable for the activities of students on their networks.
Most institutions created written policies on file sharing and often
included a warning against it during freshman orientation. To show it
meant busi- ness, the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA and
the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA unleashed he says. With the
help of new policies and procedures, some in- a flood of lawsuits against
more than 18,000 individuals many stitutions are successfully bringing
these two sides together. The of them university students over a
three-year period. ones that do are likely to see the RIAA/MPAA letters go
away. For a while, the threat of litigation seemed to slow illegal Ikezoye
says institutions basically fall into one of four cat- activity. But now
industry officials say file sharing is on the rise egories when it comes
to their response to P2P file sharing: once again because students have
found a new way to circum-
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