Marshall University has been trying to protect its students from RIAA in lawsuits related to filesharing on campus. Last week, a judge ordered the school to turn over identifying information about those students to the court. Marshall attempted to fight the issue, arguing that retrieving that information would be a costly and time-consuming process on the part of the school. However, the judge has denied the legitimacy of this response. He says that the university can easily turn over basic identifying information about the students without any “undue burden” and has ordered the school to do so. Representatives from Marshall have denied requests to speak on the court order at this time.

This may be a victory for RIAA in court but it’s not necessarily indicative of a victory in the industry. In fact, all of the media attention to the RIAA cases as well as other filesharing cases have caused BitTorrent traffic to increase 24% since last November. Another school that's been regularly attacked by RIAA, Purdue, has decided to set up its own P2P network for people on campus to use.