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Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy
crimeandpunishment writes
"The US government is making colleges and universities join in the fight against digital piracy by threatening to pull federal funding. Beginning this month, a provision of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 requires colleges to have plans to combat unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials on their networks. Colleges that don't do enough could lose their eligibility for federal student aid. 'Their options include taking steps to limit how much bandwidth can be consumed by peer-to-peer networking, monitoring traffic, using a commercial product to reduce or block illegal file sharing or "vigorously" responding to copyright infringement notices from copyright holders.'"
Why is it the responsibility of the schools to stop piracy? Why does the government not have sufficient people put in place yet (after like 17 years of the internet) to do real cyber crime investigation? Coming from an engineering background I saw this as an issue many, MANY, years ago. As a side note I recently had a credit card opened in my name and some other stuff done. You want to know what the detective from the local PD did? - nothing!, he took a report and told me I WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE FTC WEBSITE AND FILE A REPORT--IF I WANTED TO. And thanks to this government for all the help in these spammers - which in any other venue would be outright fraud. People trying right out in the open, to steal from you by deception.
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First, let's make sure there are no jobs in America for people with advanced degrees.
Second, let's make sure having a Bachelor's degree is meaningless with respect to getting jobs too.
Third, let's take away all the things that make going to college fun.
Boy, this country's going to be a lot of fun in about 20 years...