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...April, the RIAA announced plans to file 405 new lawsuits against college students, including 11 at Harvard. This litigation specifically targeted users of Internet2, a special network used by academic institutions...
...April defendants, who attended 18 colleges and universities around the country, were accused of using a program called “i2hub” to illegally share copyrighted material through high-speed uploading and downloading over Internet2. According to an RIAA press release, they were responsible for sharing an average of over 2,300 “mp3” music files each. Some users, it said, have shared up to 3,600 such files...
RIAA spokeswoman Jenni R. Engebretsen told The Crimson on the day the lawsuits were filed that the defendants were “the most egregious users of Internet2.” She said the litigation was meant to “attract the attention” of other file-sharing users and discourage them from continuing to pirate copyrighted material...
Just before the Internet2 lawsuits were filed in April, RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a telephone press conference that some students believed using Internet2 would prevent their illegal behavior from being detected, but stressed that this notion was erroneous...
According to the April 12 RIAA press release, a file-sharing application known as “i2hub” allows students to upload and download files at very high speeds via Internet2. The press release states that “i2hub” is especially attractive to students because they tend to wrongly believe their illegal file-sharing activities will not be detected in the “closed environment” of the Internet2 network...