Sue, Sue, Sue ‘em all

In the latest salvo from the RIAA, 762 people are being sued. Again they’re targeting university students who have access to very high speed connections. Here’s a blurb from the Chronicle via Edupage, an electronic publication of Educause.

RIAA ADDS MORE LAWSUITS TO THE TALLY
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed another round of lawsuits, this time targeting 762 individuals suspected of illegally trading files on the Internet. The group’s lawsuits over the summer months focused on users of commercial networks, but with the return of thousands of students to colleges and universities, the RIAA is once again targeting some college students in its lawsuits. The latest round of lawsuits includes 32 students, and the RIAA named 26 colleges and universities on whose networks the alleged copyright infringement is said to have taken place. The new round of suits also goes beyond the major P2P providers, such as Kazaa, and now includes services with far fewer users, such as eDonkey. According to the RIAA, more than 1,000 of those charged so far have settled with the group, at an average of $3,000 per settlement.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 October 2004

The one correction about that blurb is that eDonkey has lots of users. Recent statistics indicate that eDonkey has equaled or passed Kazaa/FastTrack in the number of users. Investigate at Slyck.com.