RIAA: 'We're Targeting Colleges to Make them More Aware'
Date : 2008 05 14 Category : Web News
Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technology News
Says they don't send automated notices to commercial ISP's because they think that they are generally aware that there's a file-sharing problem."
The Chronicle of Higher Education got a private demonstration recently of how the RIAA catches alleged music pirates at the organization's headquarters. The rep said it uses the same P2P and file-sharing software as that of the pirates it's attempting to bust and in no way singles out certain colleges or universities.
He says the process works like this: The RIAA has a list of copyrighted songs that it gives to an anti-piracy company called Media Sentry. This company then runs LimeWire, KaZaA, or other Direct Connect type file-sharing programs and searches for these copyrighted songs to see if anybody's "making them available" for others to download.