Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; Piracy; and Copyright Infringement

In an effort to better understand the technologies available for copyright infringement control, the Common Solutions Group invited leading vendors of detection and suppression technologies to present and discuss the architecture and implementation of their products at an intensive workshop held at Virginia Tech on January 9, 2008. This is their summary report.

This is an unabridged transcript of Don Reisingers interview with the RIAA.

The RIAA has quickly become one of the most disliked organizations in the world. Working ostensibly with the interests of the artists in mind, the organization has single-handedly instituted a policy of lawsuits and education in an attempt to curb the piracy of music.

EDUCAUSE Vice President, Mark Luker, responds to Dan Glickman of the MPAA and his piece “Compiling a Sensible Syllabus for Piracy U,”.

"If you were responsible for a college's network and were faced with infringement notices from the recording and motion picture industries, how would you handle them? That's the question Elliot Kendall, network security architect at Brandeis University, faced. He decided to ask his peers how they handled P2P traffic on campus networks, as well as DMCA takedown notices and prelitigation settlement letters."

"The latest salvo in the entertainment industry’s campaign against illegal downloading of movies and music — aided and abetted by Congress — is wrong, and students should help fight it, Kenneth C. Green argues."

"American peer-to-peer users worried about being sued into oblivion by the recording industry may soon have a much bigger concern: facing off against the U.S. Department of Justice."

"Earlier this year, Ohio University finished atop the recording industry’s infamous list of institutions receiving the most copyright-infringement notices. But these days the university is singing a much happier tune: Campus officials say a ban on peer-to-peer networking has cut down on piracy without restricting legal file sharing."

The author suggests that schools may be purposely not retaining IP logging data on students to protect them from copyright infringement lawsuits.

"The Recording Industry Association of America recently targeted students at 22 American universities, sending out 403 of its "pre-litigation settlement letters," according to the group, which represents major record labels. "