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By Alex Vegia
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Students arriving for fall class
es at colleges across the country
are facing new restrictions and
stern warnings to discourage the
swapping of pirated music and
movies over high-speed campus
Internet connections.
Some schools are even using
software to choke the amount of
data that can flow in or out of a
computer when students use Kazaa
and other file-sharing programs.
And in a new approach dis
closed Tuesday, at least a dozen
universities are exploring ways to
offer students a fee-based music
service whose fees could be bun
dled with room and board costs.
"We’re feeling a great deal of
pressure as a result of what the
entertainment industry is doing, and
we’re stepping up a lot of activities
to address it,” said Jim Davis, asso
ciate vice chancellor for information
technology at the University of
California. Los Angeles.
Last year, UCLA received
dozens of notices every month
from record companies and
movie studios complaining
about copyright violations.
The Recording Industry
Association of America regards
file-sharing as theft. Last spring,
the RIAA settled lawsuits
against four college students
who allegedly offered thousands
of songs for download on their
campus networks. The group is
expected to file several hundred
more copyright infringement
lawsuits this month.
Overall, RIAA President Cary
Sherman said he is gratified by the
attention copyright violations are
getting on campuses.
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ago in terms of the seriousness
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