USC was just ordered to turn over student names and contact information for the purposes of preventing music piracy. It is the latest school added to a list which includes, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Davis, and Loyola Marymount, which were also ordered to provide the names of students in similar cases.
Unlike in the previous cases, the Judge orderd that the plaintiffs in the USC case can only use the information they retrieve for non-monetary relief.
“Representatives of Motown Records, Universal Music Group and BMG are seeking settlement amounts ranging from $4,000 to $4,500 from USC undergraduates in exchange for not being named in a copyright infringement lawsuit currently pending in federal court in Los Angeles.”
There are no defendants named yet. The case was filed last July against anonymous “John Doe” defendants for illegal music filesharing.
Check the original article out here.
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