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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."
This doesn't surprise me at all. Kansas is the most backward thinking, Republican, pro big business, conservative state in the USA! I married a Kansan and let me tell you something-you can take the girl off the farm, but you can't take the farm off the girl! Fortunately, it's fixed now.. :)
"I am an admin on a university network and we are frequently reminded that the students are paying customers with rights"
You can stop right there.
YOU are a nobody. A network admin. THEY, the people who want this rule enforced, are record companies with IMMENSE capital and an army of lawyers. They can do what they please and the college "authorities" WILL obey because MONEY TALKS.
Get over it.
Well, that's easy. They lose their right to control distribution of their copyrighted material. Nor can they get it back, as you have the material already. That's what copyright is about, you know. They own the right to decision, not you. You took that right away from them. Got it?
Don't attend a university. Don't waste your time and money on college just so you can wag a little piece of paper around in front of so-called employers saying "Look, I'm in debt too, I must be an upstanding member of society and am very likely to be hired... Just wait until I'm in even more debt from that ranch house and brand new car! You'll just have to hire me then because all of that debt will give me great credit ratings, plus I'll look sooo cool out in my twenty square foot yard on my super expensive riding lawnmower twice a week! Praise be America, all hail imaginable money!"
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
The students or the cooperations? I kinda would have thought that Universities would do everything in their power to aid thei students en masse.
Hardly. Their policy at http://www.dmca.ku.edu/ states that...
University officials reserve the right to access, examine, intercept, monitor and copy the files and/or sessions of any user
Copyright apparantly doesn't mean a damn thing to them.
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