Yet more students have fallen foul of the RIAA’s move to outlaw filesharing. Students at Mississippi State University are the latest to be hit with the RIAA’s dreaded pre-litigation letters. The university now has “many” students who are being sued for using P2P filesharing services like Morpheus and Limewire.
The students have been given until January 5 to respond to the letters. “We simply passed on the letters to the students,” said MSU Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. Bill Kibler.
What else could the university do? Students will likely be sued to the tune of $750 per file, with cases averaging between $3,000 and $5,000 – if they settle out of court. Any filesharing students brave enough to take on the music industry will most likely lose their cases and face charges of up to $50,000 per song.
Students who refuse to comply will be identified and taking to court. These students are easy to make an example of, but filesharing is not going to stop – one third of all computers have Limewire installed on them.