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University of Kansas Adopts 'One Strike' Copyright Infringement Policy
NewmanKU writes "Eric Bangeman at Ars Technica writes that the University of Kansas has adopted a new, and very strict, copyright infringement policy for the students on the residential network. The university's ResNet website states that, 'Violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is against the law. If you are caught downloading copyrighted material, you will lose your ResNet privileges forever. No second notices, no excuses, no refunds. One violation and your ResNet internet access is gone for as long as you reside on campus.' According to a KU spokesperson, KU has received 345 notices in the past year from organizations and businesses regarding complaints about copyrighted material downloading."
After looking at your previous comments, you deserve a -1. If someone with an axe to grind flagged you unfairly every time you made a post, then you'd have a legitmate complaint, but making inflamitory posts and getting labelled appropriately is rather reasonable I think.
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This is from the State University of a state that outlawed evolution in favor of creationism.
We got 12 million people without healthcare in this country and our Congress seems far more worried about protecting the RIAA than in solving problems that result in people dying.
We have some four thousand dead and who knows how many injured in a pointless war in Iraq, bu instead of dealing with an out-of-control President who thinks he's king, our Congress is protecting the RIAA by threatening college students.
I don't approve of illegal downloading. It's wrong, but it's not something that deserves this kind of attention from Congress. It's not something that should result in endangering the educational opportunities of a student the first time it happens. We've all done stupid things when we were in college.
Lets get our priorities straight here and tell the RIAA what they can do with themselves and tell our Congress to get to work on the real problems facing our country.
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Unfortunately, you bring up a good or decent point as well as make the wrong conclusions.
What is to stop false copyright claims and setups like this from taking someone net access away?
As for the boy George, At best your going to get the girls to think he is bisexual. Girls talk about being pulled into the top bunk of the dorm while the roommate was trying to sleep below. Hell, they talk even when your not in the room. Have you ever noticed that when your bagging a girl, more girls look your way as if you could bag them too? It isn't her sex juice clinging to your privates, it is her mouth talking about it to all her friends who in turn talk about it to others. Some girls have bigger mouths then others and some lie about it because they don't want to be seen with a boring sex life or having something wrong with herself after someone else talked about how great he was.
So at best, they would think he was bi sexual which in itself might be a turn on for some girls. There is nothing that will get you laid more then a couple girls talking about how great you were. Once that's out, there is little outside a disease or dismemberment that will stop you from getting laid unless the truth turns the good in bed rumor into a lie.