Is downloading sound clips and movie clips dangerous to Penn State?
One of the biggest problems associated with the Internet is the fact that valuable copyrighted works including sound clips from CDs and movie clips are posted at renegade sites for anyone to download without paying any kind of fee. This practice has driven many copyright owners to court because they are, in essence, being stripped of their property; however, since the source of the infringements is often an untraceable site in cyberspace, an alternative defendant has been the Internet service provider who links customers to these sites. In our case, the University is the provider.
