Marking a new chapter in its war against file sharing, the RIAA announced a new campaign against college students while launching its new lawsuit-settlement web site. Affirming his stance that the RIAA "must continue to enforce its rights," RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol said that his organization sent out 400 prelitigation settlement letters to students at 13 different schools. The organization has also sent a mass mailing to college and university presidents across the US asking for their cooperation in the RIAA’s ongoing war against file sharing.
Ars obtained a copy of the letter, which explains the rationale behind the decision to escalate the RIAA’s "deterrence and education efforts." Calling the amount of on-campus file sharing "extensive and unacceptable," the letter lays out a couple of ways in which campus administrators can assist the RIAA.
Schools should use technological solutions to clamp down on piracy, which the RIAA says will result in a lower likelihood that a university’s students will be targeted. The RIAA is also looking for full cooperation when it comes to the RIAA’s new prelitigation letters and settlement web site, which will allow "students and others with access to the network" to settle claims at a lower cost and before lawsuits are filed. Universities are also encouraged to give students an inexpensive alternative to file sharing, such as Ruckus Networks’ free, ad-supported college music service.
We first learned about the prelitigation settlement letters and the existence of p2plawsuits.com a couple of weeks ago, when a copy of a letter the RIAA sent to American ISPs asking for increased cooperation was leaked. p2plawsuits.com represents the RIAA’s best effort to date at making an end-run around the judicial system and extracting sizable—yet "discounted"—settlements from those it believes are guilty of infringing its copyrights.
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