U of Oregon first to defy RIAA

As reported on Read/Write Web, the University of Oregon is the first college in the United States to actually refuse to hand over names of file sharers to the RIAA. Their argument has two components:

The Oregon Attorney General, working with the University, has filed a motion in court to quash the legal move by the Recording Industry Association of America, which the University says is trying to force the educational institution to perform a legal investigation for the benefit of a private corporation. The agrieved parties ought to perform their own investigation, the University argues.

In addition, observers point out that

The U of O is infamous for its inhumanely cramped dorm rooms, though, making it improbable that one resident could have committed such an act without the other being intimately aware.