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Article: UC Berkeley goes after students for illegal downloads
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 19, 2007
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University of California, Berkeley, students who download music
illegally over campus computer networks will face the higher
education version of a "time out" -- a week or more with no in-room
Internet link.
The new policy comes as the entertainment industry ups the
pressure on universities to deter legions of student pirates who
share copyrighted music and videos.
A congressional committee this summer was pressing the issue, and
some in Congress have proposed installing devices to monitor
Internet traffic on campus networks.
Because it can't peg individual users, the Recording Industry