The RIAA has been contact colleges with a list of IP addresses that they claim are computers downloading music illegally, and asking the school to give them the names of the students back. But Oregon said no.
This is the first school I have heard fighting for the students. Now, to be sure- they are not saying that they approve of illegal downloading. They just say that IP addressed don’t necessarily link to one computer or person. With wireless routers, several computers can have the same IP address. The school, unlike the RIAA, does not want to accuse someone without certainty that they actually are guilty of what they were accusing them of.
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Dawn Watkins // November 20, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Actually, many schools have been fighting RIAA on this …. along the lines of academic freedom.
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