Democrats: Colleges must police copyright, or else

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<p>[[print</a> version] Democrats: Colleges must police copyright, or else | CNET News.com](<a href=“CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news”>CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news)</p>

<p>“The new Higher Education Bill (HEA §494) requires that the Universities stop all P2P downloads that RIAA doesn’t like AND buy Napster or Rhapsody subscriptions for every student on the campus or lose all federal financial aid.”</p>

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<p>what a terrible idea.</p>

<p>how can you selectively stop P2P downloads that are illegal? there are legitimate uses for P2P (for instance, Linux distributions, along with a lot of other free software, are often transferred through P2P). so the bill seems to be implying “colleges should stop illegal P2P downloads” - how do they know what’s illegal? then you will just get students making misleading file names, encrypting files with a password that every student knows but the school doesn’t, etc. also is it even possible to stop DC++ or myTunes from working on a college network?</p>