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story category College Resources Taxed Trying to Comply with RIAA
Schools say that they just don't want to be involved
02:35PM Sunday Aug 31 2008 by KathrynV
tags: legal · Fileswapping
RIAA has been successful at making sure that colleges comply with rules designed to limit illegal file-sharing on campus. However, most colleges have not been pleased to be placed in the middle and asked to play copyright cops on campus. Colleges are now saying that being forced to do so is taxing the resources of college staff.
"Filtering or monitoring technologies designed to spot incidents of illegal downloads have forced many colleges to assign full-time employees the job of tracking down the IP addresses of network users who might have violated copyright laws, find out if those users are still enrolled in the university, and make sure the alleged violators receive notice that the RIAA is looking for them. The software has been installed at campuses across the country after the recording industry's intensive lobbying effort for better network monitoring."
Colleges don’t want to waste their staff’s time on helping make RIAA cases and many are trying to step back and define their role as being separate from the issue.

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