Dolby Buys MIT's DTV Vote for $30 Million

An anonymous reader writes "MIT's campus newspaper, The Tech is reporting that the university will be receiving $30 million from Dolby Laboratories. This payment is in return for MIT's vote on the "Grand Alliance" committee responsible for choosing the audio standard for digital television (DTV). Dolby also appears to have paid off Zenith, another committee member. The professor representing MIT on the committee stands to receive $8 million personally. But here's where it gets truly odd. After dutifully voting for the Dolby standard, MIT attempted to collect on the bribe, but Dolby refused to pay. So, MIT sued to collect. In the end, MIT and Dolby settled out of court. Says The Tech, "There's clearly a conflict of interest," [MIT's Jack] Turner, [associate director of the Technology Licensing Office] says, but, "it can't be avoided. MIT's reputation as being pure... in its academic evaluation of things is very important." Yeah sure."

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Bunch of Crooks!

[Nicholas Name]

When I was at Michigan State University a UNIX system admin was making alot of personal trips out to Sun Microsystems which caused some University personnel to question a possible conflict of interest in that Sun products were all of a sudden being "hyped". This would have been in the early 1990's. But now the University environment must be so corrupted that MIT sees nothing wrong? Fire the mother fucker you assholes! Oh I get it now, a "bribe" from a communist organization to change the official school emblem to a hammer and sickle. A "payoff" from Hustler magazine to get all those coeds' names and phone-numbers. Twenty dollars for a blow job from the President's secretary? Go for it you MIT fucks!