News: the beginning of the end for p2p?

News:
09-08-2008:
If you recall all universities in the US have been asked to clamp down on p2p, well It's starting look like the marshalls are coming to town and this might be the beginning to the end of p2p if arstechnica are to be believed.

In other cases where a school is only able to narrow down the list of possible P2P users to a dorm room with two or more residents, the RIAA has typically sought to obtain the names of all possible infringers in an attempt to discover the identity of the P2P user in question. With 40 possible users for two IP addresses, such an approach is impractical. Moreover, there are privacy implications for the at least 38 innocent students involved. We asked the RIAA how it would handle the situation with the two Tufts IP addresses. "As we do in all of our cases when issues are presented, we will work with the school to determine the most reasonable course of action to prevent further abuse of its network," an RIAA spokesperson told Ars.
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