I do know of one instance at Arizona State University, that was on the local news here a few months ago, as well as I know a few people that are enrolled there currently, that the FBI busted a student and confiscated his PC over some of his internet activity which some major US companies were losing money because of this.
It turned out that the FBI had the wrong guy and all they did was give him an apology accompanied by a warning to not do this ever again. They later found the right person and destroyed his pc on the spot and he is not allowed to touch a computer unsupervised.
I just thought I would share this based on the information provided by friends and the media and the similarity you brought up even though the instances are probably different. But still it is kinda interesting though. Anyways just thought I would share it due to the similarities.
