This is a Bizarre story. P2P file sharing users who intentionally downloaded P2P software and allegedly and intentionally downloaded copyright music are now blaming the software developer.

Students at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst were sued by RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America ), which demanded $3,750 to settle the copyright infringment case. 31 of the students now demand that P2P developer i2hub, owned 22 year old Wayne Chang, pay those fees.

From the Wall Street Journal article: "The letter on behalf of the students said i2hub's promotional events on campus and advertisements on university buses implied a connection between i2hub and the university, and gave the service legitimacy. Ms. Kent also argued that i2hub coaxed students to share files illegally by requiring users to share one gigabyte of files in order to use the service."

"Karen Frank, an intellectual-property attorney in San Francisco, said the students' case depends on whether they can prove that i2hub misled them and that they weren't aware that their use of the service was illegal. "It sounds like a pretty steep hill for the students to climb," she said. "But it's clever.""