The U.S. Navy has disciplined students caught sharing files with demerits, extra work assignments and loss of privileges, a far cry from the court martials or expulsions expected by some. Interestingly, the punishments had very little to do with copyright violations and rather more to do with obeying orders. The students had been warned to curtail their activity, and "an academy official disclosed that the raid was spurred less by warnings from the recording industry than by a threat by a Defense Department agency to stop paying for the school's Internet connection." The Register also chimes in, adding barely concealed derision at the music industry's concern expressed about the students' using "multi-gigabyte drives" (which, of course, are standard on cheap new computers everywhere these days).
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