p2pnet.net News:- With all the attention on lawsuits against mom-and-pop file sharers and blacklists against p2p operators, it’s easy to forget Big Music’s assault on p2p has a number of fronts, not the least of them being the US university system with Napster II as its spearhead.

It works like this: if students download ‘product’ supplied by the Big Five record labels to ’services’ such as Napster II, the RIAA won’t have to drag the students into court to force them do the same thing.

Penn State was the first major institution to fall, with the University of Rochester close behind. However, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), owned by the Big Five record labels, only one of which is in the US, has obviously been hard at work on school administrations across the country.

Napster II will soon begin “offering” [read force-feed] Big Music ‘product’ to Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York; the George Washington University, Washington, DC; Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont; the University of Miami; the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, says PC Advisor here.

Tennessee said it didn’t want Napster II, thanks, and students at Syracuse were trying hard to keep the bedraggled moggie off their campus.

The story doesn’t say how the deal is structured, but Napster II can use all the help it can find and getting it into a university where students are virtually forced to use it will be of great assistance.

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