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MIT is the leading university for digital piracy and related copyright infringements within the U.S. for the second year in a row, according to a 2008 report from BayTSP published last month.
BayTSP, short for Bay-area "Track, Security, Protect," is a California-based company specializing in analysis of online copyright infringement. BayTSP compiles data using through their piracy-network crawling software and databases of digital fingerprints of media.
According to spokesman Jim E. Graham, BayTSP collects its raw data for "nearly every motion picture studio, a good number of software companies, video game and publishing companies, and an increasing number of sports and pay-per-view companies," and compiles its data into an annual report available to the general public.
Although MIT was not in the top 10 worldwide, Graham said that in the U.S., MIT, University of Washington and Boston University topped the lists with the most infringements of BayTSP client materials.
The founders of the Web site The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest facilitators of the downloading of copyrighted material, were denied their appeal to a Swedish court Friday after they were ordered to pay about $3.6 million in damages to companies like Sony and Warner Bros. and sentenced to a year in prison each. The men said the judge in their case was biased against them because he belonged to copyright lobby groups.
BayTSP, short for Bay-area "Track, Security, Protect," is a California-based company specializing in analysis of online copyright infringement. BayTSP compiles data using through their piracy-network crawling software and databases of digital fingerprints of media.
According to spokesman Jim E. Graham, BayTSP collects its raw data for "nearly every motion picture studio, a good number of software companies, video game and publishing companies, and an increasing number of sports and pay-per-view companies," and compiles its data into an annual report available to the general public.
Although MIT was not in the top 10 worldwide, Graham said that in the U.S., MIT, University of Washington and Boston University topped the lists with the most infringements of BayTSP client materials.
The founders of the Web site The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest facilitators of the downloading of copyrighted material, were denied their appeal to a Swedish court Friday after they were ordered to pay about $3.6 million in damages to companies like Sony and Warner Bros. and sentenced to a year in prison each. The men said the judge in their case was biased against them because he belonged to copyright lobby groups.
