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Universities Cope with New Anti-Piracy Requirement
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| Reis' headaches began at the end of last summer, just after President Bush
| signed into law the Higher Education Opportunity Act, the first
| reauthorization of the Higher Education Act since 1998. The act included
| several new provisions, but the one that has Reis and others on college
| campuses concerned is a new requirement that schools ensure they are doing
| all they can to combat illegal file sharing among students.
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| [...]
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| Reis estimates he will spend approximately $100,000 implementing new hardware
| and software in order to be in compliance with the regulation. But figuring
| out exactly what is needed is not easy. The HEOA is still in the negotiated
| rulemaking process, so the exact language and interpretation from the
| Department of Education is still forthcoming.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061509-universities-cope-with-new-anti-piracy.html
Next challenge: confiscate USB keys.
They can't stop this. It's a waste of time, money, and privacy.
Recent:
What do the EU results and Pirate Party mean for digital rights?
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| Stand back from the media frenzy concentrating on Labour’s woes for a moment,
| and ask yourself what these elections mean for digital rights.
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| Several parties that broadly supported digital rights concerns did well in
| this election, including, in the UK, UKIP and the Greens. The Liberal
| Democrats also had a fair showing.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/06/what-do-the-eu-results-and-pirate-party-mean-for-digital-rights/
The Pirate Party
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| The Pirate Party has a constructive and reasoned proposal for an alternative
| to pharmaceutical patents. It would not only solve these problems, but also
| give more money to pharmaceutical research, while still cutting public
| spending on medicines in half. This is something we would like to discuss on
| a European level.
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| Patents in other areas range from the morally repulsive (like patents on
| living organisms) through the seriously harmful (patents on software and
| business methods) to the merely pointless (patents in the mature
| manufacturing industries).
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| Europe has all to gain and nothing to lose by abolishing patents outright. If
| we lead, the rest of the world will eventually follow.
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http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english
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