University Helps FBI Link P2P with Al Qaeda

first-they-came-for-the-filesharers dept.
A professor at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon is on paid administrative leave after he says the school accused him and his students of supporting al Qaeda by selling pirated music and videos. "They told us the college had alleged that my students and I were running a piracy ring. We were downloading, cracking and re-selling software, movies and music and were doing this in support of al Qaeda terrorists," Gifford said. Gifford is about to become the president of the school's faculty association and the administration doesn't like him. But Gifford says to claim he and his students ran a video and music piracy ring to support terrorists is completely false.