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New round of attacks against colleges, reports p2pnet

By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman

p2pnet.net reports a new wave of attacks on colleges. Still do not see Harvard among the colleges:

RIAA attacks another 18 US schools

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG?s RIAA has kicked off the new year with renewed attacks on university students across America.

It boasts it?s sent out a new ?wave? of 407 extortionate ?settlement? letters to 18 universities, using ?evidence of significant abuse of campus computer networks for the purpose of copyright infringement? as the excuse.

Targeted are:

Arizona State University (33 pre-litigation settlement letters), Bowdoin College (11), California State University, Monterey Bay (25), College of William and Mary (15), Duke University (16), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (19), Mount Holyoke College (15), Rhode Island College (22), Saint Mary?s College of Minnesota (13), Stanford University (15), Texas Christian University (14), University of California, Berkeley (26), University of California, Los Angeles (26), University of Connecticut (25), University of Iowa (24), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (22), University of Texas at Austin (50), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (36).

The Big 4 are using their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) as a front end in a vicious attempt to use legal systems not only in America, but around the world, to force ?consumers? into buying corporate product.

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Full post as published by Recording Industry vs The People on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).