Think this can't happen to you since all you are doing is downloading MP3 files? During a 48-hour period near the end of September, we processed a series of complaints from organizations representing the recording, software, and film industries identifying computers at Colby that are illegally making software, digital music, and/or video files available to others on the Internet. The students who own these computers have received notification from me that we have received complaints about their actions and that they are putting themselves in jeopardy of federal criminal and civil legal action. This process is described in the policy document describing Colby's implementation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (www.colby.edu/info.tech/policies/DMCA02-03.doc). This process has not been a pleasant experience for these students but is minor in comparison to what can happen if prosecution and civil litigation occurs. Some students claim not to know that they had installed this server function on their computers when they installed the program for downloading music. KaZAa does not function without there being servers and if you have KaZAa installed, your computer most likely is a server. This is true of the other common peer-to-peer (P2P) applications as well. Ignorance of this function is not likely to be a very good defense.