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The Recording Industry Association of America sent out more than two dozen letters on Monday apologizing for incorrectly targeting institutions suspected of posting copywritten music on their servers. The RIAA said the erroneous notices were the result of an error by an unnamed temporary employee.

One of the undue warnings arrived last Thursday at Penn State University, accusing professors of illegally posting songs by R&B singer Usher on a university-hosted FTP site. It turns out that the RIAA’s automated Web crawlers had mistakenly zeroed in on and linked an MP3 of an a cappella song by a group of astronomers about the Swift gamma ray satellite and papers posted by an astrophysics professor emeritus named Peter Usher.

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