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Saturday, April 05, 2003
RIAA Sues College File-Swappers - Ryan Naraine, Internet News
The RIAA wasn't bluffing. Following through on a threat to sue illegal file-swappers at universities nationwide, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has slapped four lawsuits against operators of what it described as "Napster-like internal campus networks" that aid in the theft of copyrighted songs. Just months after seeking the cooperation of college administrators and sysadmins to eliminate the peer-to-peer networks from campuses, the association filed suits against two individuals from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and file-sharing operators at Princeton University, and Michigan Technological University.
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