A couple of students at the University of Pennsylvania caught a break this spring, when campus officials decided they didn’t have enough information to name two suspected music pirates sued anonymously by the Recording Industry Association of America.
This fall, though, file swappers at Penn might not get off so easy: The university is requiring students who join the campus network to use a new program that links their computers’ network addresses to their university-issued ID numbers. Officials say the service was installed to help them isolate computers that have been hacked, but some students worry that the program will also be used to rat out purported pirates. (The Daily Pennsylvanian)
For more on Penn’s decision not to name file-sharing suspects, see an article from The Chronicle by Brock Read.
