The University of Tennessee complied with a subpoena Monday and sent the recording industry the names of 15 students accused of online music piracy.
The move clears the way for a group of record labels to name the students as defendants in federal lawsuits, barring a settlement agreement that's still likely to cost students thousands of dollars apiece.
It's the latest development in a campaign by a record label trade group to stop college students from sharing copyrighted music online using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5581379,00.htmlBut wait the is an update for this article.
More than 70 universities around the nation currently use a technology to block or monitor peer-to-peer sharing of copyrighted material. The University of Texas at Austin is not one of those institutions and has no related changes planned for the near future, said William Green, UT's director of networking for Information Technology Services
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology held hearings last week to discuss the widespread problem of peer-to-peer file sharing on college campuses. One of the hearing's main focuses was to discuss CopySense Appliance, a program aimed to detect when students are sharing copyrighted material. File sharing, through the use of popular applications such as Gnutella and BitTorrent, has become as easy as point and click.
http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2007/06/13/University/No.Plans.To.Block.File.Sharing-2914627.shtmlAll i need to say is go figures
