News US colleges fight 'pirate' subpoenas

From the Beeb:

Two colleges in the United States are challenging legal requests to hand over the names of students who have been accused of illegally downloading music.
But Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they are not trying to protect students.

They are trying to quash the subpoenas - which mean they must hand over information by law - because they say the requests were not properly filed.

The subpoenas are part of the US music industry's new strategy to chase individual "pirates".

Boston College said they were given less notice than is legally required and the subpoenas broke federal law by being filed in Washington DC, more than 100 miles (160 kilometres) from where they were served, in Boston.

Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn said: "Once the subpoenas are properly filed, we will comply with the subpoenas."

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