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April 28, 2007

Judge Orders University to Disclose Students to RIAA

As many as 53 UW-Madison students could be slapped with lawsuits by the music recording industry after a federal judge ordered the university to surrender their names and other information for sharing digital music files over the Internet. Sixteen record companies represented by the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking the names associated with 53 Internet connections for copyright infringement.

Read more in Wisconsin State Journal 4/26/07

Thanks to Gigalaw.com Daily News 4/27/07

Posted by P. Kaufman at April 28, 2007 1:55 PM