OSU’s Number One!….At Pissing Off the RIAA
Posted on July 10, 2008
Filed Under News, Tune In | By Jessica Dye
Got the new Lil’ Wayne album? If you go to The Ohio State University, we bet you do–a recent RIAA report revealed OSU is the number-one college in the country for music piracy. The RIAA recently presented Congress with a list of the top campuses for download offenders, and OSU takes first place, with 2,336 warning letters sent during the ‘07-’08 school year. It might seem natural that one of the country’s largest schools would also have one of the largest stacks of file-sharing violations, but, according to the Columbus Dispatch, OSU didn’t even crack the top-10 last time around. RIAA officials say college network improvements have given them new ways to track down cyber-thieves, but school administrators say the increase in letters is mostly due to the RIAA’s increase in policing dorm-room downloads. See which other schools made the RIAA watch-list after the jump.
- 1. The Ohio State University: 2,336 notices
- 2. University of Central Arkansas: 1,811 notices
- 3. Michigan State University: 1,539 notices
- 4. University of Hartford: 1,467 notices
- 5. University of Texas-Austin: 1,451 notices
- 6. University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1,409 notices
- 7. University of Southern California: 1,391 notices
- 8. Montclair State University: 1,216 notices
- 9. North Carolina State University: 1,138 notices
- 10. East Carolina University: 1,133 notices
Check out all 25 top offenders here.
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