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IU Gets Spike Of RIAA Notices
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IU Official Says Info Doesn’t Match
Wired reports that Indiana University — as well as other universities around the midwest — are getting a lot of copyright infringement notices from the RIAA, but that the information contained in the notices doesn’t match what university computer records show.
Indiana University says that starting on April 21, the Recording Industry Association of America began sending 80 legal notices a day to the university, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Typically, the university handles less than 100 such notices a month from the RIAA, the Motion Picture Association of America and HBO combined.
The DMCA notices include information about a specific IP address, file sharing protocol and named infringing file.
Indiana University’s tech staff routinely compare those details against the university’s logs to make sure that the allegations are accurate, according to Mark Bruhn, an associate vice president of IU’s information technology department.
But many of the recent notices don’t correspond to entries in traffic logs, which also don’t show any overall increase in file sharing, Bruhn said.
It’s interesting that Indiana University’s computer logs don’t match the information contained in the allegations of copyright violations.
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2 Responses to “IU Gets Spike Of RIAA Notices”
Pardon my ignorance, but what does this mean? Why wouldn’t the records match up?
Hi Dan,
IU is saying that the information provided by RIAA in saying that students are stealing music doesn’t match up with what is on their computer records — i.e. the RIAA says student X was doing something on computer Y at time Z, but IU’s records don’t show that happening.