February 21, 2007
Seek and Destroy
The Recording Industry Association of America has released a list of the top 25 universities that have received notices about students possibly illegally downloading copyrighted songs. The list, made at the request of the Associated Press, does not indicate which institutions are the worst infringers, just those that have received the most notices so far this academic year.
Number of notices sent to date during the 2006-7 academic year and the institution that received them:
| 1,287 | Ohio University |
| 1,068 | Purdue University |
| 1,002 | University of Nebraska at Lincoln |
| 959 | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| 914 | University of South Carolina |
| 897 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| 753 | Michigan State University |
| 572 | Howard University |
| 550 | North Carolina State University |
| 513 | University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 490 | University of South Florida |
| 488 | Syracuse University |
| 487 | Northern Illinois University |
| 473 | University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire |
| 470 | Boston University |
| 457 | Northern Michigan University |
| 424 | Kent State University |
| 400 | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
| 371 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 360 | North Dakota State University |
| 353 | Indiana University |
| 353 | Western Kentucky University |
| 338 | Seton Hall University |
| 336 | Arizona State University |
| 331 | Marshall University |
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this should not have any thing to do with a university only the specific students illegaly downloading the files. the school is simpley providing a service of the internetl. that would be like holding comcast resposibe for people hacking or also downloading illegal files.
— braden palmer Mar 5, 01:42 AM #