MPAA names its Top 25 movie piracy schools

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.

SOULXTC: “walkin’ the streets of P2P”

MPAA names its Top 25 movie piracy schools

Related Stories