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Music-download crackdown hits USF
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 22, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cracking down on college students, including some at the University of South Florida, the music industry is sending thousands more complaints to universities this school year than it did last year as it targets music illegally downloaded over campus computer networks. A few schools, including Ohio and Purdue universities, already have received more than 1,000 complaints accusing individual students since last fall - significant increases over the past school year. Locally, USF received the 11th-most complaints (490) so far this school year, well above the 276 it received in all of 2005-06. No other Florida-based colleges made the top 25 list of complaints received. For students who are caught, punishments vary from e-mail warnings to semester-long suspensions from classes. The Recording Industry Association of America identified at the request of the Associated Press the 25 universities that received the most copyright complaints so far this school year. The RIAA complained about almost 15,000 students at those universities, nearly triple the number for the previous school year.
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