The RIAA's power to issue subpoenas identifying college students in file sharing cases may have been dealt a major setback when a Federal judge ruled that the Cable Communications Policy Act (CCPA), which RIAA lawyers rely on to subpoena network user identities, doesn't apply to universities.
While the judge who made the original ruling suggested that the DMCA might be another option for suits against students, but since the universities don't qualify as content providers for purposes of DMCA takedown requests, they don't carry any legal liability under that law, and can't be issued takedown requests for P2P traffic moving through their networks.
Source: Ars Technica













