Apr 2 2007

MPAA names its Top 25 movie piracy schools

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The MPAA may be gearing up for an RIAA-inspired assault on US colleges and universities. Last week the group announced its support for the "Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act (2007)," and MPAA head Dan Glickman said that his organization would work with school administrators to put an end to movie piracy on campuses, which Glickman says costs the industry $500 million annually.

Most telling, the group has heard the call of Representative Howard Berman and has compiled a list of the most piracy-ridden schools in higher education. This is a page straight out of the RIAA playbook. Here they are, the schools that made the MPAA’s "dishonor roll" and the number of students identified as making unauthorized use of copyrighted materials:

  • Columbia University – 1,198
  • University of Pennsylvania – 934
  • Boston University – 891
  • University of California at Los Angeles – 889
  • Purdue University – 873
  • Vanderbilt University – 860
  • Duke University – 813
  • Rochester Institute of Technology – 792
  • University of Massachusetts – 765
  • University of Michigan – 740
  • University of California at Santa Cruz – 714
  • University of Southern California – 704
  • University of Nebraska at Lincoln – 637
  • North Carolina State University – 636
  • Iowa State University – 586
  • University of Chicago – 575
  • University of Rochester – 562
  • Ohio University – 550
  • University of Tennessee – 527
  • Michigan State University – 506
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute – 457
  • Drexel University – 455
  • University of South Florida – 447
  • Stanford University – 405
  • University of California at Berkeley – 398
  • A number of schools have the dubious distinction of being on both the MPAA and the RIAA list. The overachievers are: Ohio University (#1 RIAA/#18 MPAA), Purdue University (#2, #5), University of Nebraska at Lincoln (#3/#13), UMASS (#6/#9), Michigan State (#7/#20), North Carolina State (#9/#14), University of South Florida (#11/#23), Boston University (#15/#3), and the University of Michigan (#18/#10). In all, 10 schools appear on both lists, and Purdue University wins the Gold Medal for highest overall ranking between the two combined.

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