p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA goes after Princeton
p2pnet.net News:- "My heart and viscera just shrank and chilled," said Princeton University OIT policy adviser Rita Saltz when she learned the MPAA might follow the RIAA in suing students.
She’s quoted in the Daily Princetonian in a story that reveals MPAA boss Dan Glickman has, “expressed concern about, illegal movie downloading on the University network and attached a list of 66 IP addresses associated with alleged acts of infringement,” according to university spokesman Eric Quinones.
Princeton has so far resisted pressure from the movie studio and record label cartels to join Penn State and other US universities as a virtual sales unit.
Glickman didn’t say if the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) intends to sue any of the 66, Quinones said, but, "Our OIT office has contacted all of the students associated with those machines where the alleged infringement occurred," states Saltz in the Princetonian.
"They were notified that we did receive this notice and instructed that if any infringement was going on, it should cease immediately."
The Big Four labels recently used their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to demand the names of 39 students they claim have been sharing music online.
"This letter was not a typical takedown notice, but rather an expression from the MPAA’s president to President Tilghman that the film industry is concerned about copyright infringement at Princeton and on other college campuses," Quinones said.
Saltz says Princeton assigns each student a unique IP address whereas at some universities, IP addresses are associated with a particular location rather than an individual.
"From an administrative standpoint, this system is consistent, convenient and has allowed for the most expeditious response to network emergencies, such as a virus," Quinones says in the report, adding, ‘The RIAA would have to obtain the identification of a student associated with any IP address from the University in any instance’."
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Penn State - University p2p ‘report’, p2pnet, August 25, 2004
Daily Princetonian - MPAA warns University of file-sharing, May 6, 2005
May 6th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
princeton is a private university. they have their own private network.
how did the MPAA get in? did they hack it? shouldn’t they have criminal charges files against them for doing this? they must have hacked into private property (servers).
from what i understand, if they use i2hub or some other uni network, only students and staff have access to it. i know that i2hub allows students to invite other students from other unis who can access i2hub, but there’s a vetting system if you’re from outside a particluar uni - your university network has to be checked to see if it can access another school’s.
so how could MPAA get in unless they illegally hacked their way in?