WP: Music Industry Targets Internet2 Network(sues students at 18 colleges)

[DeepModem Mom]

Music Industry Targets Piracy Over Internet2 Network

By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 12, 2005; 3:14 PM


The entertainment industry's effort to sue music pirates into submission is reaching into the next generation of the Internet with the filing of several hundred lawsuits tomorrow against college students using a faster version of the Web called Internet2.

The Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group of major music labels such as Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music, found that students have been moving to Internet2 -- a network created by universities and colleges for sharing research and other academic works -- to illegally share songs after the RIAA began its lawsuit campaign against Web swappers in 2003. To date, the RIAA has sued more than 9,000 file-sharers....

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The Motion Picture Association of America, which represents big studios such as Warner Bros. and Sony, also said today that it would go after Internet2 file-swappers who illegally trade digital movies such as "Spider-Man" on the Internet....

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In this round of lawsuits, Sherman said the RIAA is targeting students at 18 schools, including Boston University, Harvard University, Ohio State University, University of Southern California and Michigan State University. He said his group is limiting itself, at least initially, to 25 suits per school....

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Songs can be downloaded on Internet2 in 20 seconds, Sherman said, with movies taking less than five minutes. This marks a significant speed advantage over the Web, Sherman said, where it can take one to two minutes to download a song and well over an hour for a movie.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46612-2005Apr12.html

[leftofcool]

1. Damn internets!...eom

[Don Claybrook]

2. Who gave the RIAA a presence on Internet 2?

It would be interesting to hear how the RIAA got access to this private network.

[NashVegas]

8. I Was Wondering the Same Thing, Myself

Maybe someone who doesn't like controversial entertainment?

[sonicx]

3. Where's this special second Internet at?

[Jazzgirl]

5. I want to know where Internet2 is too!

How do you get to it??

[Daphne08]

6. I've never heard of another internet.

:shrug:

[DS1]

7. It's been around for years, uses a brand new backbone

and broader IP system. It's for schools only at the moment. It'll filter down eventually.

[Daphne08]

10. Thanks for the information

I had no idea (and for years I was a teacher with computers in my classroom) but I'll do some research on this.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Why is nobody counter-suing?

This ought to be the big-money case of the century -- bringing down the RIAA and gutting the Digital Millenium Copyright Atrocity ... I mean, Act.

As for downloading a movie in five minutes, what is he thinking of, a Cray? Movies, from what I know of them, are usually 500MB-2GB. It takes about ten minutes for me to transfer a gigabyte data image from one disk to another over my computer's internal hard-drive bus.

--p!

[wysi]

9. We're infamous!

In this round of lawsuits, Sherman said the RIAA is targeting students at 18 schools, including Boston University...

woo-hoo! Go BU!

wysi (BU 1988)