The RIAA has disproportionately targeted college students in its online piracy clampdowns, because, it claims, people form their media buying habits at the same age that they attend universities. As a part of the campaign, the organization compiled a list of the 25 most egregious sharers of copyrighted music files, categorized by school.
The MPAA, which does for movies what the RIAA does for music, has released a list of its own -- of the 25 schools with the most students identified by the MPAA as sharing copyrighted movie files without permission. If it follows the RIAA's lead, the next step is unleashing a renewed effort to get identified movie sharers to step forward and ask for a settlement, rather than entangling the organization in battles it might sometimes lose.
Here's the list of schools containing the most of movie-sharing students, as tabulated by the MPAA (their normal method is to search for something, find out who's sharing it, and record their IP address):
1. Columbia University - 1,198
2. University of Pennsylvania - 934
3. Boston University - 891
4. University of California at Los Angeles - 889
5. Purdue University - 873
6. Vanderbilt University - 860
7. Duke University - 813
8. Rochester Institute of Technology - 792
9. University of Massachusetts - 765
10. University of Michigan - 740
11. University of California at Santa Cruz - 714
12. University of Southern California - 704
13. University of Nebraska at Lincoln - 637
14. North Carolina State University - 636
15. Iowa State University - 586
16. University of Chicago - 575
17. University of Rochester - 562
18. Ohio University - 550
19. University of Tennessee - 527
20. Michigan State University - 506
21. Virginia Polytechnic Institute - 457
22. Drexel University - 455
23. University of South Florida - 447
24. Stanford University - 405
25. University of California at Berkeley - 398
(via ars technica)
