Seattle— Months after the Recording Industry Association of America became more aggressive in its nationwide crackdown on sharing of music files on campuses, there’s still plenty of confusion about how colleges should handle the wave of “pre-litigation notices” the trade group is asking institutions to forward to offending students. The topic was the subject of a packed session here Wednesday at Educause 2007.
Kent Wada, director of IT policy at the University of California, who led the session, was surprised by the size of the crowd. “I was worried no one would come,” he told the group.
But judging by the questions during the 50-minute session, an entire conference could be held on the subject. About a quarter of the 100 or so people in the room, mostly CIO’s from colleges, said they have received the RIAA notices. Of those, only four said they did not forward the notices to…