____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Wednesday 14 November 2007 00:02 : \____
> <Quote>
> The College Opportunity and Affordability Act (PDF) is a monster of a
> document, weighing in at 747 pages. The bill aims to amend the Higher
> Education Act of 1965, and buried deep inside is a nasty secret
> sponsored by the entertainment industry: universities would be
> required to help fight piracy or risk the loss of federal funding.
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9629
>
> A fine example of the influence of lobbyists. Governent of the large
> corporations, by the large corporations and for the large corporations
> (or whoever else has the most money).
I saw this a few minutes ago. Check this out:
Anti-P2P bill gets warm welcome from Ruckus.com
"Ruckus uses digital rights management (DRM) technology--Windows Media--to
limit the use of downloaded songs."
Yay! Windows only!
'The RIAA has lauded Ruckus as a way to wean students off of peer-to-peer
networks, calling the Web site and service an "innovative business model."'
RIAA. Winner of innovative litigation. DRM for music is thankfully dying. But
they'll corrupt the government in attempts to prevent this.
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9815876-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Bribery, Bribery, Bribery (maybe we should have a nice video of Sweaty Ballmer
repeating this 14 times).
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