MPAA follows RIAA lawsuits

From today's Harvard Crimson: MPAA Follows RIAA Lawsuits.

Following similar actions taken by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed lawsuits yesterday against students at 12 universities for allegedly violating copyright law.

The MPAA is targeting users who allegedly have shared movies illegally over the Internet, while the RIAA’s suits focus on copyright violations concerning online music sharing. ...

Like the RIAA, the MPAA specifically cited file-sharing applications such as “i2hub” that take advantage of special [Internet 2] networks used by academic institutions.

The MPAA sued students at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas, Columbia University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Rochester, Boston University, the University of Ohio at Cincinnati, the University of Ohio at Columbus, Ohio State University, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, according to spokeswoman Kori Bernards. ...

Related: Register UK: RIAA discovers Internet2.