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Battle over file sharing moves to new arenas

Date: 11/17/2008 05:28 pm

 

Since February, the Recording Industry Associates of America
has been using aggressive new legal tactics to stop illegal file sharing on
campus, as documented by the Columbia Spectator.  One tactic - threatening universities with
legal action if they do not reveal the identities of students shown to be file
sharing through their IP address – was recently successfully challenged in
federal court by a student at George
Washington University.  Now Congress is getting into the act, as
reported by the Stanford Daily.

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