College students are increasingly discovering that file sharing has serious consequences. Just ask 220 Penn State students accused of using an LAN to bypass the university’s network bandwidth restrictions. They have lost the privilege of Web access in their dorm rooms.
See also my previous posting on four college students who were sued by the RIAA for using LANs to collect and distribute copyrighted songs. In addition, see this New York Times article, Recording Industry Goes After Students Over Music Sharing, that documents the responses of students and administrators at other colleges and universities throughout the country. Also, Univ. of Minnesota stuck in middle of music, movie download dispute.
An update on the Penn State students, April 24: “The 220 students caught last week trading copyrighted material received a slap on the wrist from the Office of Judicial Affairs after promising not to share illegal material again.”