Students under fire for filesharing

More students are set to be targeted by the RIAA for illegal music downloads. This time, the lucky students are the guys and girls at the University of Wisconsin. The RIAA last week filed a lawsuit to attain the names of students accused of using filesharing networks to share copyrighted material.

A total of 48 people are under the filesharing spotlight this time. The were monitored throughout 2007 and the start of this year.

The RIAA currently only knows the IP address of the students, so it will take a lawsuit to force the university to reveal the names, at which point the RIAA will issue its famous pre-litigation letters.

Similar lawsuits have been filed by the RIAA with mixed success. There has been no response by the university with regards to the filesharing matter. We’ll keep you posted if we hear any more.

Posted on 3 July 2008 by mike in News