Base-1:Net.Tersed

RIAA/MPAA

I am still not entirely sure these organizations should be allowed to exist.

It’s hard to believe the amount of power that they have in the government already, and how much they can control who gets funding.

Recently, in the Higher Education bill (HEA §494),

Sec. 494 Each eligible institution participating in the federal aid program shall:

• provide annual disclosure/warnings to the students applying for or receiving financial aid, stating that:
  • P2P file sharing may subject them to civil and criminal liability;
  • summary of penalty for violation of copyright laws;
  • University’s policy of disciplinary action for using university’s IT for unauthorized downloads; and
  • the actions that the University takes to detect such activities;
• develop plans for offering alternative to illegal downloading or P2P distribution; and
• develop plans to deter illegal downloading.

Ridiculous. Really. Now colleges/universities must come up with a plan to distribute files to their network users. With what money? Is the government going to take money out of it’s Iraq funding to help with this? Or, like most times, is the end-user (students, who are poor enough as is) going to take more of a hit for this?

I’m just not sure when this is all going to end.