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RIAA Cracks Down on Internet2 File Sharing

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places dept.

Daverd writes "Hundreds of students at 18 universities nation-wide have had lawsuits filed against them by the RIAA for filesharing over Internet2." The official RIAA Press Release and commentary at MSNBC is also available. From the article: "i2Hub has been seen as a safe haven, and what we wanted to do was puncture that misconception," said Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA. "This has been a subversion of the research purposes for which Internet2 was developed."

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  1. Re:Queue.insert(this); by Wordsmith · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Then you get criminally charged with obstruction of justice, for faking a crime with the intent to make it harder for authorities to weed out the real violators.