Film Studios Want Colleges to Block Students From Downloading Movies

By SCOTT CARLSON

Chief information officers and others who try to control illegal file-sharing on college campuses have a new headache to deal with. MediaForce, a company retained by movie studios to put a stop to the online sharing of their films, has been patrolling the Internet and flooding some colleges with cease-and-desist demands -- some of them...

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