Congressional leaders have sent letters to 19 major university presidents warning them to step up efforts to curb illegal Internet file sharing or Congress “will be forced to act.”
“The fact that copyright piracy is not unique to college and university campuses is not an excuse for higher education officials to fail to take reasonable steps neither to eliminate such activity nor to appropriately sanction such conduct when discovered,” said a letter addressed to Purdue University president Martin Jischke May 1, 2007.
Purdue is among the top universities with the most illegal Internet downloading activity in the United States, according to surveys cited in the letter.