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>Recording Industry Forces University to Identify Students Suspected of
>Music Piracy
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><mailto:[log in to unmask]>By ANDREA L. FOSTER
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>The Recording Industry Association of America last week forced Loyola
>University Chicago to hand over the names of students whom the association
>suspected of offering music over the university network in violation of
>copyright law. The association obtained the data through a subpoena,
>indicating that the group is fulfilling its pledge to clamp down on
>peer-to-peer music piracy by threatening to sue thousands of people.
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>An officer for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia
>delivered the subpoena to the university last Monday, according to Jack
>Corliss, a technology administrator at Loyola. The document, part of which
>was obtained by The Chronicle, cites the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
>and directs Loyola administrators to provide the names, addresses,
>telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of people assigned to a specific
>Internet address.
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>Mr. Corliss says the university complied with the subpoena after notifying
>two students assigned to the Internet address on Wednesday that the
>recording-industry group had sought their identities and contact
>information. The students, who are enrolled in the university's summer
>session, have not discussed the subpoena with university administrators,
>says Mr. Corliss.
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>Loyola is not the only college to receive such a subpoena since the
>recording-industry association announced last month that it would start
>amassing evidence to prepare lawsuits against people who upload large
>amounts of music, said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the group. But he
>declined to reveal how many colleges have received similar subpoenas.
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>"This should not come as a surprise to anyone that a subpoena may have
>been served on a college," said Mr. Lamy, adding that other Internet
>service providers, besides colleges, have received subpoenas.
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>The subpoena to Loyola suggests growing confidence by the recording
>industry in demanding that Internet service providers identify individuals
>who are sharing music online. When the recording industry issued a
>subpoena to Verizon Communications asking that it reveal subscribers'
>names, the company fought the demand. But it relented last month after the
>U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the company's
>request to place the subpoena on hold while Verizon challenged a provision
>of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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>Tracy B. Mitrano, director of the program in computer policy and law at
>Cornell University, said she has studied the question of whether colleges
>could refuse to comply with recording industry subpoenas, citing academic
>freedom or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and determined
>that they can not.
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>"I don't see how we have much of a choice," she said.
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