Police Arrests Analyst at UGA for File Sharing Blackmail

Encouraged by the RIAA's warning and notices some universities, like UGA, have applied various measures to combat file sharing in campuses – from policies against pirating music, to filtering programs against illegal downloading. An employee of The University of Georgia whose job was to monitor and report students and faculty members who indulged in file sharing activities over the Internet was fired for trying to get money from students he caught illegally downloading content online. UGA police arrested the 37-year-old security analyst earlier this week on a felony extortion charge after the man was denounced by one of the university's students whom he had tried to convince to pay in exchange for his silence – “All he was doing was (offering) to keep the information from going to Judicial Programs,” said UGA police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.

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