Schools would be forced to police file-sharing activity on their networks and possibly offer subscriptions to music services under the proposed College Opportunity and Affordability Act. If they don't comply, their students would be cut off from all... ...full story at digg
from digg on Mon, Nov 12 2007
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US students, alumni to get legal P2P » the register (uk) The beginning of the end of the file-sharing wars? Exclusive US colleges and their alumni may be offered the right to P2P file-sharing under one of the most radical copyright reforms in a hundred years, The Register has learned.… |
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MPAA Explains Why It's Okay To Tie Federal Funds To Blocking File Sharing » digg We've asked supporters of the bill to explain how it could possibly make sense to mandate such things, and the MPAA's top lawyer, Fritz Attaway, has given his answer, claiming that it's because the internet is "used primarily to allow college students to... |
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File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints (Rachel Aviv/New York Times) » techmeme File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints — When Zachary McCune, a student at Brown, received an e-mail message from the university telling him he might have broken the law by downloading copyrighted songs, his eyes glazed over... |
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Controversial college funding bill passed, P2P provision too » digg The College Opportunity and Affordability Act has been under fire for requiring schools to make network filtering plans. The House passed it with those provisions in place, despite widespread criticism of the plan and recent revelations that the MPAA had... |
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Tackling College Piracy: At What Cost? » digg The Higher Education Opportunity (HEO) Act of 2008 requires US Universities and Colleges to undertake measures to reduce piracy, and go after students who use filesharing networks to share copyrighted files. A recent study found that, per institution,... |
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