Troubling "Digital Theft Prevention" Requirements Remain in Higher Education
Bill
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| To those unfamiliar with this particular sort of DC
| double-speak, "alternatives to illegal downloading" means industry-sanctioned
| download services; and existing "technology-based deterrents" means network
| filters and other tools.
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| These congressional requirements will turn out to be expensive dead-ends --
| the industry-sanctioned online music services are laden with DRM, and network
| detection/filtering programs present privacy risks and are inevitably
| rendered obsolete by technological countermeasures.
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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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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/digital-theft-prevention-requirements-remain-higher-education-bill
See this Lessig video on such corruption:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
Quote for the day:
"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to
compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates
the two."
--Government official
So the law wasn't on the MPAA's side. They change the law: 1) fund some
candidates; 2) make 'amendments'; 3) ... and 4) Profit!
Related:
RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”
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| Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a
| decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been
| successfully wiped from the site.
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http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-website-hacked-080120/
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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