The University of Minnesota takes a strong stand against unlawful distribution of copyrighted materials (music, movies, software, etc). We respond to copyright infringement notices from copyright owners who actively search for such violations on the network. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requires UMC to take action against anyone illegally distributing copyrighted materials.

If an individual is found to be distributing copyrighted material using any university computing resources or distributing media using excess amounts of bandwidth the following action(s) will be taken:

Visit these links for more information:

Copyright Violations
High Bandwidth Abuse Violations

RIAA Information -- various links