| Title: | Downloading by Students Overstated (ID: CSD5321) |
| Author(s): | Andrew Guess (Inside Higher Ed) |
| Topics: | mpaa, P2P File Sharing, Piracy |
| Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (01/23/2008) |
| Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports |
| Abstract: | "In its campaign urging lawmakers and colleges to take the issue of on-campus illegal file sharing seriously, the Motion Picture Association of America has wielded an array of legal arguments, facts and statistics. It now appears that a central figure in that arsenal was high by a factor of three, galvanizing its opponents who maintain that colleges have been singled out unfairly as havens of downloading activity. " |
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