Are you a college student who's received an RIAA letter?


If you're a student and you've been accused of illicit downloading by the RIAA, I'm working on a report and I'd like to talk with you — please email xeni@xeni.net.

Eliot van Buskirk at Wired: Listening Post blog has a good roundup of the story here:

As part of its new initiative to convince universities to turn over the names of students suspected of copyright infringement (more on that soon), the RIAA has launched its P2Plawsuits.com website, which, in a deliciously ironic twist, had previously hosted all sorts of ads for dodgy P2P clients.

On the site, students whose universities have agreed to turn over student names to the RIAA and users whose ISPs have agreed to turn over subscriber names to the RIAA can apply for a settlement by entering their case number, and even pay their settlement online, which the RIAA promises will be represent "a substantial discount" from what they would have had to settle for before this campaign launched.

Link to the full text of that post, and here's the AP story on the letters sent to college students by the RIAA this week.