The University of Wisconsin is telling recording-industry executives that if they want to reach a financial settlement with students who may be illegally downloading music, they must go find them themselves. University officials have decided not to forward settlement letters to students that the Recording Industry Association of America has been mailing out.
"These settlement letters are an attempt to short-circuit the legal process to rely on universities to be their legal agent," said Brian Rust, communications manager for the university's Division of Information Technology, in an interview with The Badger Herald. The university is still enforcing its own policy regarding illegal file sharing, Mr. Rust said. And it still forwards cease-and-desist letters from the RIAA, as the university is legally bound to do. But university officials say they will not pass on letters asking students to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to avoid a lawsuit. –Dan Carnevale
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