RIAA reveals how it tracks college file sharing
A painstaking examination of how the RIAA goes about its business hunting down file sharers on college campuses is available online.
The Chronicle of Higher Education visited the offices of the Recording Industry Association of America and got a demonstration.
The RIAA employee, who declined to give his or her name for fear of receiving hate mail, said the organization has hired online copyright enforcer MediaSentry to do most of the heavy lifting. MediaSentry writes scripts to automatically hunt for the names of copyright songs and locate the IP addresses of computers sharing files, and forwards the information to the RIAA.
