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The following story is
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A student who was turned in by computing officials at the University of Oregon has been convicted of serving up thousands of pirated computer programs, movies, and music recordings from a Web site on the institution's network.
Jeffrey Levy, a senior, pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement August 20 in U.S. District Court in Eugene, "I think we'll be thinking of how to use this to better educate the campus community on what's legal and not legal, but also the consequences of their actions." His activities came to light in January, when university network engineers noticed an unusually large amount of traffic moving over the campus network.
Officials traced the traffic to Mr. Levy's Web site, which contained thousands of recordings and commercial software applications, all freely available to anyone who cared to download them. The university then notified the local U.S. Attorney's office, which investigated and then charged Mr. Levy.
While it is unusual for a university to turn in one of its students for copyright violations, Oregon's director of computing, Joanne Hugi, says the institution's actions were guided by its acceptable-use policy for computing resources. The policy prohibits the copying of proprietary software and states that such copying can result in "criminal prosecution or a civil suit for copyright infringement, or both."
Mr. Levy, who is scheduled to be sentenced November 2, faces a penalty of up to three years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.
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