Comments on: Mixed reviews for illegal file-sharing on campus

Congress passes the Higher Education Act 2008 with provisions that require universities and colleges to deter illegal file-sharing. A tech-education group doesn't like it, but Hollywood does.

[unknown unknown]

With congress firmly on the payroll for entertainment industry, and just about one else that produce enough contributions, is it any wonder they have the lowest approval rating in history.

They're all corupt, they'd sell their own mothers if it meant bigger contributions to their campaigns.

[imacpwr]

And all this time I thought the Higher Education Act of 2008 was designed to raise the standard of education in America. I was wrong, apparently it's designed to raise the profit margins of the IRAA and MPAA..!!
MPAA CEO Dan Glickman's quote: "Congress is sending a strong message that intellectual property is worth protecting" clearly states that he believes education should take a backseat to big business's profits..!
Let's break the back of the IRAA and MPAA, support p2p..!!

[jjbraunius]

I think they should just throw the students out of the universities for illegal file sharing, how dare they infringe on the RIAA!

[appledogx--2008]

That's MPAA; if there is much difference.

[appledogx--2008]

Government is best which governs least. Somehow the RIAA thinks it is best if it governs everything.

[Lerianis]

Actually, that isn't true. The government that is best is the one that governs the PEOPLE least..... I have no problem with them telling businesses what to do, in all honesty.

[Gayle Edwards]

Lets shine a little TRUTH on this...

This was NOT done for any pressing societal-issue. And, it certainly wont, in any way, improve education (if any thing this will directly cause untold problems, costs, and loss of freedoms).

Basically, the universities are being ordered (under serious-threat) to spy on students, and forcibly provide (ever scarcer) monetary-resources, directly, to (entirely-unconnected) private-interests (to the direct detriment of the entire higher-education system). In short, a few bloated, corporate-entities snapped their fingers... and their obedient, slobbering, slaves ("our government") did their true-masters bidding (beyond, even, these crooks wildest-dreams).

This is absolutely disgusting. What is worse is that NOBODY is actually surprised by this level of corruption... or, how easily this was done right in front of the American-Peoples eyes.

God... our nation is so far gone...

[cohaver]

RIAA will fail so will this. Technology always surpasses Law. And Technology is not control by the US Government Let us not forget where 90% of the hardware and software is made overseas and no matter how powerful RIAA is in America Russia China and Europe will stop them cold. Even in America thousands of software and hardware designers make things with loopholes in them(by skill or error). RIAA is the Communist of 21 first century Forcing the state to do it bidding and only hurting the skill set of America schools.

[Lemon5]

Man, the propaganda really works wonders in elementary schools. I never would have thought that our government could be bought out so easily. It is really pretty sad. I mean the corporations just say they want something, the US government will just bend over backwards just to do what this corporation asks them to.

[eddified]

This is a weird twist on the Police State..... The state isn't doing the policing, but rather forcing higher education to do it for them. This is just sick. Our legislators really have been bought.

[ethana2]

I'm great with them stopping piracy on campuses, as long as they do so without messing with my copyleft downloads. My entire music library is from jamendo.com; vorbis files obtained via the torrent client that came with my os (ubuntu). As long as I can still do my perfectly legal downloading at decent speeds, I don't care what they do to the pirates.

[jef5623]

Illegal Fire sharing should not be allowed in the 7th age of computing.

[benjaminstraight]

This puts pressure on publicly-funded schools.