Comments on: Colleges fret RIAA push for state anti-P2P laws

Capitol Hill politicos aren't alone in considering new antipiracy mandates for schools. Tennessee just passed the first such law, and universities are bracing for other states to follow.

[russkeller]

Interesting. With any luck the music industry may have just stirred up a hornets nest. Finally a group who also has the governments ear and understands how fruitless the efforts are is directly involved.

[russkeller]

Interesting. With any luck the music industry may have just stirred up a hornets nest. Finally a group who also has the governments ear and understands how fruitless the efforts are is directly involved.

Is this thing getting through?!?! Whatever you guys at Cnet updated change it back!

[Fil0403]

Maybe they want to remove networks and Internet access from universities alltogether, that would be more efficient, no?

[Leria]

That would be the only REAL way that they can keep people from sharing things illegally. The RIAA and MPAA just have to acknowledge and realize that they have been charging MUCH too much for their music and movies for the past 15 years about.

[unknown unknown]

First time a student finds an encrypted protocol or uses an SSL tunneling proxy that allows p2p like your-freedom.net, their investment in expensive filtering technology is for not.

[mattumanu]

Why do they even need to do that? Most of these students will simply go off campus to Starbucks or wherever there's wi-fi, and download everything they could ever want.

[JCPayne]

LOL...

Yeah... Ummm I represent all U.S. book publishers and I'm going to press for a new law that reads any schools with a photo copier on their campus should also lose federal funding...

Yeah RIAA you go ahead with that.... Are those sill overpaid republicans also aware that a simple instant messaging programme can also P2P????

LOL....

[perfectblue97]

Forget the actual legislation, the way that these bills can be tacked on "under the radar" is frightening is undermining America's democratic system.

A bill like this can be added without informing or consulting more than a token amount of the relevant bodies. It's scary.

[custompcmax]

This is stupid, as there will always be a different method if one is shut down. They are fighting something bigger than can be stopped. Not to say they don't have some rights, but guess what, there is no stopping it now.

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[Dalkorian]

The RIAA in particular has been PROVEN to be a LIAR about the amount of "infringement" that's going on in colleges, so why do they get to pen some draconian garbage like this? We should fine the RIAA and MPAA for every single false claim they make until both of these criminal organizations are put out of business.

[benjaminstraight]

College students are notorious for P2P downloading. I still don't think they will pay in the end.