A Massachusetts District Judge Nancy Gertner has provisionally prohibited Boston University from providing details of students’ connections to the RIAA. The judge called for an investigation to look into whether such an act is permissible.
The RIAA, of course, targets students on campus suspected of violating copyright laws by getting illegal music downloads. The judge made the argument that it is unclear whether using filesharing programs like Limewire have violated any copyright laws.
There is some strong debate whether or not this is indicative of a turnaround in this and other court cases against students accused of filesharing. Boston University acts as an ISP for its students and has thus far not given the RIAA details of individual users.
The RIAA finds filesharing violators by employing the company MediaSentry to act as a filesharing user and target certain computers on university campuses around the United States.
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