Forget party schools: The RIAA lists the top piracy schools in the US

Ohio University, Purdue University, and the University of Nebraska have made it to the top of a list, but it may not be something the universities want to brag about. The RIAA recently named the top 25 music-pirating schools in the country, an act that involved sending over 14,500 copyright infringement notices (so far) during the 2006-2007 school year. This was nearly triple the number of notices sent during the 2005-2006 school year, according to the RIAA. The group says, however, that they are taking advantage of new software tools to improve the tracking of illegal file sharing, which may be part of the reason why the numbers have skyrocketed.


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Piracy and Public Perception

The editors of the Wheeling News-Register are rather disgusted by college students who download music illegally, a fact they make very clear in an unsigned editorial:

To their credit, some universities are cutting off campus Internet access to culprits. Good. They should do all they can to help enforce the law — which happens to involve copyrights, much the same as those college professors have on the textbooks they write.


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