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RIAA Adds New Colleges and Students to its Hit List


from Ray Beckerman at The Recording Industry vs. The People:

RIAA Adds New Colleges and Students to its Hit List

p2pnet.net reports that the RIAA has sent 405 more blackmail letters, adding to its hitlist an additional 23 universities, including Boston University (50 pre-litigation settlement letters), Columbia University (20), Dartmouth College (11), DePaul University (18), Drexel University (20), Ferris State University (17), Ithaca College(20), Purdue University (38), University of California - Berkeley (19), University of California - Los Angeles (21), University of California - Santa Cruz (17), University of Maine system (27), University of Nebraska - Lincoln (25), University of Wisconsin system (66, including the following individual campuses: Eau Claire, Madison, Milwaukee, Parkside, Platteville, Stevens Point, Stout, and Whitewater), Vanderbilt University (20), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (16). This follows on the heels of the offensive it launched last month targeting 400 students at 13 institutions.



posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 at 1:48 pm and is filed under music, RIAA, spamigation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “RIAA Adds New Colleges and Students to its Hit List”

  1. University Update contributes:
    March 21st, 2007 at 3:06 pm

    RIAA Adds New Colleges and Students to its Hit List

  2. Josh contributes:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Although a change in music consumption is obviously on the horizon, someone must protect musicians until the change is made and music is profitable for the artist, that’s how some people feed their children.

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