Universities may lose funding for filesharing
Shifting the emphasis from students to universities, it’s come out that schools and unis in America could lose funding if they do not police their students in an attempt to crackdown on filesharing and downloading copyrighted material.
The US Senate and House of Representatives announced that funding will be cut to institutions that the entertainment industry claims are not doing their part in supplying the names and ads of students suspected of downloading copyright material.
This is BS because it gives the music industry power over university funding and it has been well documented that the RIAA is reluctant to go after Ivy League schools.
This news is madness whichever way you look at it. Where would you draw the line between schools that do and do not deserve funding? And why should funding for education be determined by Internet downloads? It’s just silly. The MPAA is in on the act, claiming that 44% of all movie piracy is committed on campus.
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