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> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:25:56 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | The bill also would hang an unspoken threat over the heads of
>> university | administrators. In response to concerns that potential
>> penalties for | universities could include a loss of federal student aid
>> funding, the MPAA's | top lawyer in Washington said that federal funds
>> should be at risk when | copyright infringement happens on campus
>> networks. `----
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> I wonder then if the universities should just stop offering internet
> access to their students. Probably not practical, and definitely not
> popular. Still, if the Uni was to tell them why, I think there'd be
> enough blameshifting that the Uni wouldn't be to blame.
Yes. The point to make here, however, is that there is an aging industry out
there which is struggling to remain relevant in an age of YouTube (legal
entertainment largely), free (yes, legally) music, sharing of monitors, and
even sharing of software (that's less relevant to the MPAA and RIAA). They try
to battle this by rewriting the rules and they use their piles of money to
move the goalposts any way they like. This is corruption at its finest.
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