Boston - Tufts University is challenging a judge's order that it turn over the identities behind the IP addresses the record industry charges were used for illicit file-sharing on its campus network, arguing that two of the IP addresses could belong to up to 40 different students, Ars Technica reported.

"It is therefore difficult to conclude with any reasonable level of certainty that any one of those users was actually using the IP address in question at the relevant time," a Tufts vice president wrote in a letter to the federal judge who ordered the school to reveal the identities of suspected file-swappers.

"We believe, in these two instances, that it would be unfair to identify all possible individuals meeting the plaintiffs' criteria, given the low likelihood of identifying the guilty party."

The school's network data retention policies apparently prevent an exact match in these particular instances.

The case in question is Zomba Recording v. Does 1-11.

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