September 29, 2000

Police Seize Student's Computer in Copyright Case

By CAROLYN J. MOONEY

Campus police officers at Oklahoma State University this month seized a computer from a student accused of distributing copyrighted music.

The police acted after the Recording Industry Association of America faxed a complaint to the university's network-security officer. The complaint alleged that someone on the campus was disseminating music illegally. "The individual was distributing a bunch of music files as well as movies, and it was of such a magnitude we

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