Record label and movie studio investigators said on Tuesday they plan to sue more than 400 college students who used a special high-speed network to copy songs and movies.
Broadband networks made college campuses hotbeds of illegal copying, but students now use an even faster network known as Internet2, trade groups for the two industries said.
Designed for academic research, Internet2’s extremely fast speed allows users to download a movie in 5 minutes or a song in less than 20 seconds. Existing cable or DSL broadband networks usually take an hour to download a movie and 2 minutes to download a song.
“Internet2 is increasingly becoming the network of choice for students looking to steal songs and other copyrighted works on a massive scale,” said Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Those targeted in the lawsuits made an average of 3,900 files available for copying over the network, Sherman said on a conference call.
Users logged on to the network on Monday were sharing 99 terabytes of material, the equivalent of an entire video-rental store, said Dan Glickman, who heads the Motion Picture Association of America, on a separate conference call.
The RIAA said it sued 405 students at 18 schools. The MPAA declined to say how many lawsuits it had filed.
Individuals were not named in the lawsuits, but their names will likely be uncovered as the cases move forward.
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