On April 13,2005 about fifteen of the best-known labels in the music industry filed lawsuits against students at the Carnegie Mellon University and 16 others from the University of Pittsburgh. They said that they got the songs off the internet strictly for research on college campuses. Among the 15 labels were Arista, Warner Brothers and Motown who filed two copyright infringement lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh. Virgin and Capitol records, Atlantic Recording and Sony also are part in the latest court cases by the entertainment industry. They still have not released the names of the college students who the lawsuits say downloaded songs illegally, shared them with friends or made them easy to access using high-speed that limits its access almost exclusively to some corporations. the students are now only known by their e-mail address and serial numbers given by their university. Major movie companies represented by the Motion Picture association of America sued two students from CMU for trading movies such as Disney's recent hit "National Treasure"

I think that the studios and labels are kind of over reacting because yes they downloaded them illegally but they used it for research. It would be different if they were selling it but i think that if it is for research or school work they should look past it. I know that its their job and if everyone did it where would their profit be... but I'm pretty sure that those company are pretty well off, and a huge corporation is going to sue a college student for thousands of dollars? i think that thats ridiculous.