Film Studio Sends Hundreds of Letters to Colleges, Alleging Illegal Downloading

By BROCK READ

Campus technology directors are scrambling anew to comply with copyright laws after a major movie studio stepped up its pressure on students who download movies off the Internet by issuing an unprecedented number of cease-and-desist orders.

On February 28, Universal Studios lodged e-mail complaints with an unknown number of...

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