New bill would punish colleges, students who don't become copyright cops

"A massive education bill... introduced into Congress contains a provision that would force colleges and universities to offer 'technology-based deterrents' to file-sharing under the pain of losing all federal [student] financial aid." Appears to mandate that schools monitor or block some kinds of traffic and buy music services for their students. Seems like a bad idea to say "hey, let's not educate kids!" as punishment for file-sharing. Actually, it seems evil!

Nov 12, 2007 in Breaking News, Tech | Comment