March 21, 2003
Film Studio Sends Hundreds of Letters to Colleges, Alleging Illegal Downloading
Campus technology directors are scrambling anew to comply with copyright laws after a major movie studio stepped up its pressure on students who download movies off the Internet by issuing an unprecedented number of cease-and-desist orders.
On February 28, Universal Studios lodged e-mail complaints with an unknown number of institutions, citing the IP addresses of machines on which it says films under the company's copyright were shared illegally. Campus administrators who traded
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