Interesting article in the NY Times about a U.S. court in Boston rendered a $675,000 judgment against Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year-old Boston University doctoral student, for illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs over the Internet. This decision has ignited activism and fierce debate on US university campuses on the future of digital copyright. Since 2007, U.S. university students have been a prime target of a litigation campaign by the Recording Industry Association of America, or R.I.A.A., the music industry trade group that has found university campuses to be hives of file-sharing activity.

A report in June by the analysis firm Forrester Research said that 27 percent of peer-to-peer, [...]

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