RIAA rep tells how they catch alleged music pirates (incl. accused at University of Iowa?)

RIAA rep tells how they catch alleged music pirates (incl. accused at University of Iowa?) May 15, 2008

Posted by John in Business, Education, Music, Uncategorized.
Tags: copyright, file sharing, higher education, Intellectual Property, Iowa City (Iowa), LimeWire, Media Sentry, P2P, Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA, University of Iowa
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From Chronicle of Higher Education:

To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle at the organization’s offices during a private demonstration of how it catches alleged music pirates. He also said the group does not single out specific colleges in its investigations. …

Here’s how the process works: The RIAA maintains a list of songs whose distribution rights are owned by the RIAA’s member organizations. It has given that list to Media Sentry, a company it hired to search for online pirates. That company runs copies of the LimeWire program and performs searches for…

For the University of Iowa connection, see this Looking in at Iowa post from March: Record companies suing 20 University of Iowa Internet users accused of file sharing.