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Congress Asks Universities To Enforce Copyrights
Wes Felter writes "In CNet, Declan McCullagh writes that members of Congress are concerned that universities are not enforcing the 1997 No Electronic Theft Act which made simple copyright violations into a federal crime. Should universities be responsible for tracking down illegal sharing on their networks? Will ISPs be next?"
Not to worry... the thought police will be around to handle this sort of thing soon.
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Maybe the university administrators have more important things to do (like, say, running a university) than hunting down students dling mp3's. Maybe congress doesn't understand that some of us have REAL jobs that require more than going around and kissing other people's asses.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
Yesh...the goverbment should provide...the bourbon of proof...(hiccup)
I only mod up parents of "mod parent up" posts...
If that's the case, most of the sites I visit will be classified as art sites, where I can truly appreciate the female form. Especially with another female form.
Certainly, I think it's important for universities to put an end to the free-flow of information through their campuses. I mean, imagine the damage caused to society if universities just flagrantly allowed students to share intellectual property without a whim for who owns it! What a disaster it could be, as profit margins begin from students acquiring someone else's IP. I cannot imagine anything worse.
Why bother.
Just cut out the middleman. The government wants someone else to do the law enforcement? Deputize the Netwoirk Admins...Uzi and pocket protector snandard equipment.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
What? Merely a "federal crime", and not an act of terrorism yet?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Yeah, I'm sure universities will be just as able to stop file sharing as they will with stopping pot and underaged alchohol use.
-Derick
Put each of these scofflaws in prison. That would get all the un-Americans out of college and onto road crews where they belong. Or change the penalty to six years in the Marines. That would teach them respect for their betters.
They should be using their computers to write papers about how the Music Industry is just standing up for the musicians. This law is philanthropy at its best.
sed 's/commun/terror/g' mccarthy > bush; sed 's/terror/saddam/g' bush > bush_wacked
What about universities/schools themselves using pirated software!?
Software for "free" like Windows, Office, Rational Rose, Visual Studio (and
Giving them away to the students.
And you want to stop filesharing between students? Yeah yeah yeah
Just kill the RIAA goon that caught you sharing the files... you'll get to do less prison time, and you've made the world a better place too!
In this case, you couldn't even decide which one it is by looking at the contents of the file.
Free as in mason.
That's nothing. If you limit yourself to the electronic world, you miss the big picture. At my university (Western) we have several entire buildings dedicated to the sharing of copyrighted materials. Shelves and shelves of the stuff. I've got some right now... I'm going to enjoy it fully for three weeks, maybe more, then I'm gonna take it back when I no longer want it. Am I gonna pay for this? No way!
Universities could start some sort of new "Campus Police" department whose job it would be to uphold the laws.