There's no way to determine repeat offenders. Whenever someone has a copyright case they're captured, but this guarantees a new IP address. Forget about wireless and library laptop connections. Columbia has an open network. They seem to baselessly (lazily?) assume a static IP environment.

And heck, who needs accurate information when you can just make sweeping assumptions and have your lawyers bluff your way to redefining fact?

Boo, TU. Boo.

10 infringers at a school with 20 students is way worse than 1000 at a school with 100k students.. (50% vs 1%)

Yes. BT is by nature a very public p2p service.

UC REPRESENT!

Surprising that UCI didn't make the list, as the techiest of the UCs. I guess the Anteaters just do a better job of covering their tracks. :P

By "file-sharing" do they mean bit-torrent, or Limewire and the ilk? Is it technically simple to backtrack BT seeding? Only if you're seeding or if you're leeching too?

(it's for my "friend" who I understand is "experimenting" with file-sharing technologies. For a school "project")

The difference now however is that the MPAA is going to ruin these kids lives with law suits and extortion. Don't you think the MPAA would be better served going after real pirates instead of our future lawmakers and Presidents? What if you sued in to oblivion the kid who was to cure cancer?

This is just kids being kids. Why make this in to a crime? I did a ton of stupid stuff in college, (drugs, partying, mayhem, even breaking and entering once!) however I'm a well adjusted citizen of Amerika now with a fine job and kids of my own.

MPAA... Don't be evil.

Incidently... 1198 settlement letter that they claim to have sent out is 16% of the total undergraduate population and 5% of the total student enrollment.

Back when I was in school, file transfer over the Internet2 pipeline was ridiculously fast!

when i was there, you could access any shared file on any computer on campus thru network neighborhood on a t3 line. god i miss those days.

anyone good at silkscreening? i see a gold mine in t-shirts here.

My alma mater is chock full of the technologically proficient and socially awkward - RIAA doesn't stand a chance. Like the aforementioned RIT crowd, there be technology that RIAA has no clue even exists and it's awfully difficult to shame a bunch of people who don't much care about social niceties.

Hm. This doesn't explain Penn's presence on the list, though, since all they do there are social niceties. You know, the really expensive and preppy kind that are likely to lead to success as an RIAA lawyer.

Maybe those schools should be given a pass based on potential future generated income for the movie industries?
Well, the MPAA probably thinks that they can get more money by suing poor students, perhaps forcing their potential future money-makers to drop out, or at least ensuring that they next generation of movie-makers are extremely anti-MPAA.
That can only be a good thing.

I guess I'm an exception when I state that shortly after graduation I purchased almost all of the series and movies I was exposed to and liked during that time.

Oh by the way...RIT represent!