Twenty-two Rhode Island College students have been sent pre-litigation settlement letters from the Record Industry Association of America. The letters were sent on the behalf of the major record companies to 407 students and/or faculty at 18 universities nationwide as part of an ongoing campaign against online music theft...

...When the Anchor contacted the Public Relations office at RIC, it was the first that anyone in the office had heard of the matter. College spokesperson Jane Fusco then contacted the college legal team only to learn that they had not been alerted to the matter either.

At this time, the college has not released a statement on how they will react to the RIAA. In past cases, a major issue has become of how the college reacts. First at hand will be the question of if the college will turn over the names of the students using the computers mentioned in the letters. The RIAA does not know the identity of the downloaders, only the accounts they used. Some schools like Harvard, Boston University and Maine have been very strong defenders of their students while others have not.