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Colleges Automate Process of Responding to Copyright-Violation Notifications

By admin | March 24, 2010

Colleges Automate Process of Responding to Copyright-Violation Notifications

Some colleges get hundreds of e-mail messages a month from music, movie, and book publishers notifying them that a student or professor is illegally sharing copyrighted material over the campus network. Colleges are required to look into each alleged violation, and some are setting up automated systems to make the process cheaper and easier.

Doing so is trickier than it sounds, since many colleges assign users a new Internet address each time they log in, rather than give each network

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