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Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy

Posted by Soulskill on from the arrr-me-hearties dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:A better method by Kingrames · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    bleh, um, I misclicked and posted my reply to the wrong post. Curse my touchscreen phone.

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  2. Re:What a fucking joke these people are. by TheVelvetFlamebait · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hello! I'm a mod, and I have a dilemma. I really, really want to censor the voice of the parent poster, but he isn't infringing any of Slashdot's guidelines, and I'm too chicken-shit face the metamoderators. Oh I know! I'll just mod him overrated, and hope that he doesn't stand up for himself again.

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