DamnedIfIknow used our news submit to tell us "13,600 music files? Damn, that"s gonna be one hefty chunk of change the RIAA is gonna want! Good thing their lawsuits go at regular speed."
I actually heard about this on the radio last night and found it most interesting. As we all know, the Internet2 is a communication network that is many times faster than the web we travel. The intent is to share information betweeen universites and government agencies. However, with the insane speed of the Internet2, movies would be shared at an incredble rate. Here is a snippet from the home page of Internet2 that shows that even high tech, restricted projects are populated with problems:
The Internet2 community has deployed an advanced network infrastructure that represents the leading-edge of Internet technology and provides a window into the potential of the future Internet. However, the hundreds of campus networks, dozens of regional networks, and nationwide networks that make up the Internet2 community's network infrastructure are not immune to the issues that arise in today's commercial Internet, including illegal file sharing. Internet2 and its more than 200 university members are working together to prevent and address illegal file sharing by:
- enforcing policies that prohibit the illegal use of networks,
- deploying technologies that deter illegal file-sharing, and
- working with industry to offer legal alternatives.
Internet2 is working with its members to ensure that the high-performance network environment they have deployed continues to support innovation that will improve research and education today, and the commercial Internet of tomorrow.
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The Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the largest labels, said it will file federal lawsuits Wednesday against 405 students at 18 colleges with access to the Internet2 network. The Motion Picture Association of America said it will file an unspecified number of lawsuits against Internet2 users. The recording industry said some students were illegally sharing across Internet2 as many as 13,600 music files '” far more than most Internet users '” and that the average number of songs offered illegally by the students was 2,300 each. |
Quakester2000 and
NeWyAwKa spotted similar stories over at the BBC and even at the headquarters
of the RIAA. if you want to copmpare stories. The Internet2 has another feature about it and that is it is "highly secure" so it is a bit of a mystery on just how the crafty RIAA was able to sniff out this illegal activity. Of course, they aren't talking about it. I had to chuckle when I read that "Internet2 researchers" demonstrated the speed of Internet2 by downloading a DVD quality copy of the Matrix! Whoa dude!
Source: Yahoo!
