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p2pnet news | P2P:- A Tennessee lawmaker has pulled legislation to protect colleges from losing federal financial aid due to digital piracy on campus, says Portfolio.com.
Steve Cohen, "had planned to introduce an amendment to the 800-page College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 on Wednesday" but withdrew it after learning tornadoes had killed dozens of people across a wide swath of the South, including his district in Memphis, says the story,
"We’re dealing with FEMA right now," it has Cohen’s press secretary and legislative director, Marilyn Dillihay, saying.
"Congressman Cohen wanted to offer the amendment himself, but he couldn’t get back to Washington in time."
Now the education bill will go to the House floor today without the amendment, "leaving open the question of how the legislation will affect college student loan programs".
The bill, "would require colleges to warn students of the legal liabilities of illegal file sharing, and to disclose what they are doing to prevent students from stealing digital copies of music and movies," says Portfolio.com, adding:
"Cohen sought to make clear in his amendment that Congress didn’t intend to withhold federal funding from colleges that fail to comply."
Also See:
Portfolio.com - Lawmaker Pulls College Piracy Amendment, February 7, 2008
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February 7th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
This is the bill that resulted from the 300% error survey taken by the RIAA and submitted as evidence something had to be done. In reality, because of that 300% error of data, it will force colleges around the nation to pay for expensive filtering devices that don’t work and expensive filtering programs with little success rate.
Aren’t you glad that mom and pop will foot the bill for this? Somehow it escapes me how the increased funding will assist Little Johnny get better grades. With the addition of mandating a required music store to purchase music it looks, smells, and walks like corporate welfare at the expense of the tutition payer.
February 11th, 2008 at 2:21 am
ok these people are not the smartest anyway. On college campuses, at least the ones that I have attended, the people there just get a different provider (local) and use that for p2p. Anyways, I would assume most people block the .edu addresses anyway because you just don’t know who is on the other side.