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

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 2, 2010 @08:50AM 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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Re:A better method by commodore64_love · 2010-07-02 09:27 · Score: 1, Redundant

$100? More like $1000/semester. I bet some enterprising student (me) would simply download over the phone lines instead.
I for one will be happy when this fucking tyrant chimpanzee George Duh Bush gets out of office.
Oh. Wait.....

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