February 14, 2003
Record Industry Has No Plan to Seek Names of Students Trading Copyrighted Songs
In a case that campus-network administrators followed closely, the recording industry won an important legal victory last month that will help record companies ferret out music fans who illegally trade copyrighted material. But an industry official says the victory doesn't mean that companies will start demanding the names of college students who pass around song files -- at least not yet.
"We have no current plans to do that, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't in the future," says
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