] Following through on a threat to sue illegal
] file-swappers at universities nationwide, the Recording
] Industry Association of America (RIAA) has slapped four
] lawsuits against operators of what it described as
] "Napster-like internal campus networks" that aid in the
] theft of copyrighted songs.
]
] Just months after seeking the cooperation of college
] administrators and sysadmins to eliminate the
] peer-to-peer networks from campuses, the association
] filed suits against two individuals from the Rensselaer
] Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and file-sharing operators at
] Princeton University, and Michigan Technological
] University.
]
] The student operators were identified as Daniel Peng of
] Princeton, Joseph Nievelt at Michigan Technological
] University and Jesse Jordan and Aaron Sherman from
] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which is based in New
] York. The RIAA is seeking damages of $150,000 per song
] traded on the networks.