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...legal battle over online file sharing claimed a new victim this week when i2hub, an application that allowed high speed, peer-to-peer uploading and downloading of files over the intercollegiate network Internet2, shut down on Monday. The i2hub website contained no details about the closure of the service, displaying only a blank page with a graphic containing the words “Remember i2hub,” accompanied by a caption reading “R.I.P.” and the dates of i2hub’s launch and demise...
...including three Harvard network users, the organization announced Friday. According to RIAA Spokesperson Jenni R. Engebretsen, the new litigation includes 75 suits targeting users of university networks for allegedly sharing copyrighted music on i2hub, a software program that allows users to upload and download files over the intercollegiate network Internet2. These lawsuits were filed in “John Doe” format, meaning that the RIAA knows only the IP addresses of the defendants at the time of the filing. The organization typically then subpoenas each defendant’s university in order to find out the names...
...Internet2 is increasingly becoming the network of choice for students seeking to steal copyrighted songs and other works on a massive scale,” Sherman said in April. “With this action, we are putting students and users everywhere on notice that there are consequences to illegal uses of this special network...
...late May, the RIAA announced a second set of lawsuits against college students allegedly using Internet2 to pirate music online. Of the 33 schools whose students were targeted in this round of litigation, 20 had not been included in the first set of suits...
...intend to keep the heat on students and others they believe to be infringers, with the number of suits filed now headed into the tens of thousands,” he says. “The copyright holders also made clear that just switching to a new network, like [Internet2], isn’t going to get you off the hook...