{"id":168,"date":"2005-04-13T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/04\/13\/riaa-targets-new-technology\/"},"modified":"2005-04-13T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T13:52:10","slug":"riaa-targets-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/13\/riaa-targets-new-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"RIAA Targets New Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4840'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"122\">\n<p>Hiawatha Bray in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/personaltech\/articles\/2005\/04\/13\/music_suits_hit_use_of_fast_network?pg=1\">today&#8217;s<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a> reports on the<br \/>\n        latest round of RIAA lawsuits, the biggest yet.&nbsp; This time they<br \/>\n        are targeting college students using Internet2 and a file sharing program<br \/>\n        called &quot;i2hub&quot;.    <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dozens of Massachusetts college students will be hit with lawsuits from<br \/>\n          the recorded music industry today for allegedly illegally swapping thousands<br \/>\n          of songs over a superfast experimental network, called Internet2. At<br \/>\n          the same time, the motion picture industry will launch its own lawsuits<br \/>\n        today against students who have been sharing movies over the same network.      <\/p>\n<p>Eleven of the suits will be filed against students at Harvard, 22 at<br \/>\n          MIT, 25 at BU, and 25 at the UMass-Amherst. On average, the file-swappers<br \/>\n        were offering to share 2,300 tunes on their computers.      <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Motion Picture Association of America said yesterday<br \/>\n            it would file suits against an unspecified number of students at<br \/>\n          UMass-Amherst and six other universities who have used Internet2 to<br \/>\n          swap movie files.<br \/>\n            &#8221;We found treasure troves of people who are misusing the Internet<br \/>\n          for copyright theft,&quot; said Dean Garfield, the association&#8217;s vice<br \/>\n          president and director of legal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>UMass-Amherst student Wayne Chang, 21, is the founder of the i2hub<br \/>\n          Organization, which makes and distributes the i2hub file-swapping software.<br \/>\n          In an exchange of e-mails, Chang said he has no control over the files<br \/>\n          exchanged by i2hub users. &#8221;i2hub does not host any files centrally,&quot; he<br \/>\n        said, &#8221;nor does it have any indexes of files on the network.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scary stuff. Whatever happened to the 4th ammendment? We recommend storing<br \/>\n        media on DVD&#8217;s unconnected to the net. Can anyone point us to an article<br \/>\n      on the technical specs for i2hub? It&#8217;s new to the Dowbrigade&#8230;            <\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/personaltech\/articles\/2005\/04\/13\/music_suits_hit_use_of_fast_network?\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiawatha Bray in today&#8217;s Boston Globe reports on the latest round of RIAA lawsuits, the biggest yet.&nbsp; This time they are targeting college students using Internet2 and a file sharing program called &quot;i2hub&quot;. Dozens of Massachusetts college students will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/13\/riaa-targets-new-technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}