Christian Science Monitor: Universities strike back in battle over illegal downloads
In addition to paying hefty tuition and footing the bill for costly textbooks, university students may also need to pay prominent record labels a chunk of change if they choose to illegally download music on the Internet.
The 2006-07 academic year was an aggressive one for the Recording Industry Association of America’s crackdown on illegal downloads by college students. RIAA sent three times more copyright violation notices to universities than it did the previous academic year. Hundreds of prelitigation letters offered to settle for about $3,000.
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