The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is currently on a campaign to sue college and high school students who are distributing copyright protected music. The law allows a person to be sued for up to $150,00 per illegal copy of a song, movie or software. While the RIAA usually settles out of court for a lesser amount, we are sure that you do not want to be liable for a $50,000 fee, the amount rumored that the RIAA plans to settle for in this current campaign.

To limit this liability, Information Technology Services now blocks this type of traffic at our firewall. When your computer is detected attempting to download or share files, we will disable some services to the Internet (for your computer) for a period of time. Occasionally some KAZAA traffic can get through and we have received a few legal notices from the RIAA already this year.

For your own protection, please remove KAZAA or KAZAA Lite or any other P2P program from your computer. Sometimes it is people don't know what programs might be running on their computer and don't know how to find the P2P programs. The following are some pointers to software that may help you find software that may be on your computer and help you to keep it clean.