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.'"

Comments

Aren't you guys excited for net neutrality?

[bonch]

I can't wait for the day when the government is allowed to regulate internet traffic through "net neutrality" legislation. I'm sure the RIAA and MPAA won't lobby politicians to police torrent traffic. Governments are never corrupt! Nothing could possibly go wrong, and this story isn't a shining example of the government's surplus of power.

thanks RIMPAA

[circletimessquare]

for breeding greater industrial strength p2p apps

more obfuscated, more sparse, more steganography, more secure, better hidden...

oh, you thought you were going to stop piracy instead?

you thought you were going to take a bunch of poor, technically astute, media hungry young folk, and get them to go "gee, all this arm twisting... maybe i should spend $200 a month i don't have on the media i want rather than stick it to an authoritarian internet freedom destroying parasitical antiquated UNNECESSARY corporate entity"

yeah, good luck with that RIMPAA

pass all the laws you want. all of them. this is the best you can do? you can't think of something more authoritarian and controlling for the sake of shoehorning yourself into our cultural space? c'mon, you can do better than that! buy some more legislators, hire some more lawyers. be all that you can be! go for the gold!

UNENFORCEABLE

let me repeat that, in case you didn't hear me

UN-EN-FORCE-ABLE

you ignorant, irrelevant pricks

go. snort your last coke off your last hookers' ass

YOU'RE OUT OF BUSINESS

YOU LOSE

BUHBYE

don't let the packet hit you on your ass on the way out the router

fucking parasites