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Many Universities Spending $100K/Year Enforcing P2P Rules
Scott Jaschik writes "A new study documents just how much money colleges are spending on enforcing P2P rules through software license fees, hardware, and other costs. Many private universities are spending more than $100,000 a year — a major allocation of funds. An article in Inside Higher Ed explains the study and its findings."
They could spend the money on a slick, feminist ad campaign to get more BEWBIES into engineering school.
1) Scare congress into passing tough new regulations on colleges.
2) Get colleges to pay for your copyright enforcement.
3) Profit! Maybe...
The problem is that even after you do all this, do you actually make more money?
The solution is obvious: the only way to ensure 100% compliance with HEA mandates is to cut off internet access altogether. That'll save the $100k policing costs AND a whole bunch in bandwidth fees!
Plus, a lot less papers citing Wikipedia as a reference.
My university both supports and is against bittorrent. There are posters that say we shouldn't use it, while at the same time there are instructions on how to securely use bittorrent on a university website. Guess it's because we have one of the co-creators of bittorrent on campus.
Chris: BOOBIES!!
Lois: Chris, That's enough! Well I'm sure glad to be out of there
Peter: You said it Lois, what those people are doing just ain't natural.
Chris: BOOBIES!
Lois: Did you hear me young man?
Meg: I don't know what the big deal was? I thought they were nice.
Chris: BOOBIES!!
Lois: Peter?
Peter: Do it.
(Everybody besides Chris puts on sunglasses and Lois reveals the Neuralizer from Men in Black, and uses it on Chris)
Lois: Did you have fun at the circus today Chris?
Chris: Elephants are bigger in person!
And they could hold on to their precious, precious virginity until they're married, stay off those evil reefers and goofballs, turn their darn hippity-hop music down, and get off your lawn.
None of the above will happen in the few remaining years of your lifetime, nor even in theirs.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Seriously, you want ruthless compliance then mutilate people who violate it. And while we're at it let's execute pornographers in the town square. In fact let's make all crimes capital crimes. What about all the GOOD things they do in North Korea?
When I went to college all I had was a 28 kbit/s line, and I survived all four years. You could survive too on slower access.
I also had to walk uphill, through snow, to get to class.
No, really, I'm serious!
Penn State's snow removal team was not very good.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Just enroll 2.5 more students and you'll have an extra 100K
And they'd move the snow while you were in class so you'd have to walk up hill through snow going home as well :D
Luxury!! When I started we had 300 baud modems, not your fancy kilobits.
Of course, we were using line editors. Talk about uphill, both ways, in the snow. :-P
Cheers
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Personal responsibility?! Not in the USA. Here everything is someone else's fault. You should sue.
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I find being offended by me offensive.
I suggest that you go to Europe and study here instead. You may drink alcohol before you're 21 too! ;)
Please, no more American students lying in puddles of their own vomit in the student bars! Though it is funny to watch.
When my mother was learning Fortran, she didn't have a personal computer. No one did. She managed. Today, college kids are actually encouraged to bring personal computers to school. Can you believe that? Do you know many punch cards can be bought for the price of one computer? How many typewriter ribbons?