American universities are to proceed more strongly against the illegal exchange of in copyright matters protected contents in their nets. Representatives of the US federation of the music industry (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) demanded that of yesterday with a hearing of the congress sub-committee “competitive ability for 21 Century ” to possible measures against file sharing on the Campuses, which is the industry already a thorn in the eye. “The technology is there”, said MPAA boss Dan Glickman. But many universities did not use it. Modern filter systems are in the best way suitable, in order to filter in copyright matters protected contents from university nets, explained RIAA president Cary Sherman before the delegates.

For instance the suppression of the entrance to freely available contents could be excluded in such a way. The industrial representatives referred once more to the economic damage, which they calculated for their industries by the “illegal Downloads”. Pirating is the largest economical obstacle for the film industry, deplored Glickman. According to a study the US film industry lost world-wide 6.1 billion US dollar in the past year by Piraterie. From the losses on the US market went according to Glickman approximately 500 million US dollar or 44 per cent on the cap of American college students. Daily 400,000 films were illegaly downloaded.