Story Author: News Service
Publish Date: May 31, 2005
Source Publication: Indianapolis Star

Bloomington- Record companies have sued an Indiana University computer user for sharing music files as part of a batch of lawsuits targeting users of the "Internet2" network.

The lawsuits, coordinated by the Recording Industry Association of America, accuse 91 Internet2 users at 20 colleges and universities of copyright infirgement.

In the local lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in indianapolis, Arista Records and Interscope Records accuse the IU network user of illegally sharing music files. The companies subpoenaed IU records to learn the network user's identity; in the suit, the user is identified as John Doe.

The superfast Internet2, used by several million university students, researchers and professionals around the world, is generally inaccessible to the public.

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