To: All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Michael Corn" <mcorn@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: mcorn@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Filesharing/P2P Information and Warning


The end of every academic year can be hectic with finals, graduation, moving out and wrapping 
up loose ends before leaving campus for break. Copyright holders are also staying busy by using 
this time to put in extra effort to track down people that are illegally sharing and downloading 
files online. At the end of every semester, groups like the RIAA dramatically increase the number 
of copyright notifications that they send to the campus to investigate. In the past few days the 
security office has received more copyright infringement notices than it received in the previous 
year. Clearly, the RIAA is watching the University of Illinois network closely right now.

If you are caught downloading or sharing files illegally, not only do you face the very real 
possibility of being sued for thousands of dollars this summer by groups like the RIAA, but your 
connection to the campus network will be immediately shut off. Access may not be restored 
until a formal disciplinary process has been completed. Take a moment to think about your finals 
study schedule and think if you can afford in these final weeks to lose your ability to access your 
email, Illinois Compass and even your ability to surf the web.

Music and videos can be obtained at no or low-cost and legally at sites such as Ruckus and 
iTunes. Please use these or similar services instead of limewire, bit torrent or other peer to peer 
programs.

MC

Legal downloading services (a representative sampling)

Ruckus: http://www.ruckus.com
iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com (select MP3 downloads)

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Michael Corn
Director, Security Services and Information Privacy
Office of the Chief Information Officer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(217) 265-0588
mcorn@uiuc.edu
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