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- thoughtadvocate, on 02/05/2008, -1/+551Put differently, George Miller intends to punish ALL students unless their universities devote valuable educational resources to propping up the MPAA's and RIAA's failed business models. While we're at it, perhaps we should require Universities to support other failing businesses as well. General Motors and Ford are certainly doing poorly, so perhaps we should also withhold financial aid from any university that does not ensure that their students buy only cars made by GM and Ford. To be entirely consistent with the MPAA and RIAA business strategy, we could also pass laws that make it illegal for ANYONE to purchase cars made by other companies. Problem solved. Just buy a politician, and your businesses will never need to compete again!
- TopDerek, on 11/13/2007, -2/+269The MPAA is going to sacrifice students rights to affordable higher education so that they can afford their luxury cars. Lets hope that the Universities have more balls than the democrats.
- technoredneck, on 11/13/2007, -0/+222Man, is it even possible for some politicans to be anymore obviously bought and paid for?
- whatthefu, on 11/13/2007, -2/+170Why is it a college's responsibility to protect the interests of corporations? I mean, it's reasonable for them to intervene in certain but rare cases I'm sure, but it is not the college's job to police student internet activity unless they get a tip that someone is a serious threat to other people on campus.
- Yoda916, on 11/13/2007, -6/+172This needs to make the front page of dig.
- technoredneck, on 11/13/2007, -5/+164This has absolutely nothing to do with conservatism, liberalism, libertarianism, you name it--it's nothing but pure, unadulterated corruption, which knows no ideological boundaries.
- Lyanto, on 11/13/2007, -0/+116And digg as well!
As a student, it pisses me off to see the RIAA's influence has gone this far. - oreonblade, on 11/13/2007, -0/+113Which politicians introduced the bill and how much were they paid by the lobbyists? It seems the RIAA/MPAA does not see anything wrong with its current business model. All they ever do now is use politics to prevent themselves from falling further into obscurity.
- vervalsing, on 11/13/2007, -1/+108Wow, I hope the RIAA was nice enough to at least use some lube...
- Abestar, on 11/13/2007, -0/+96Congress says to America's students - "Stop stealing from the guys that payed us off or you can't go to school."
- ggnictee, on 11/13/2007, -0/+81http://www.house.gov/
send that email. Just write "Please vote Against HR 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007." that's all you have to do. but the more emails that go in the more likely they'll vote against it. If we are silent, we fail.
If you don't vote you won't die. you just won't matter. Politicians don't care what you think unless you vote.
How many people are members of digg? maybe enough that if everyone takes two minutes to send an email whenever these subjects hit the front page that we can make a difference.
As everyone's favorite hero, Captain Planet, would say "the power is in you!" now go do something useful and save the world, one email at a time. - Chirp08, on 11/13/2007, -1/+65i think we are pretty ***** at this point, democrats and republicans both dont give *****..
- aukxsona, on 11/12/2007, -0/+63Except the violation of students privacy, the violation of the colleges privacy, and the violation of the vast majority of the countries will....when it's our goddamned money. Oh yes I hope this either fails....or the Dummycrats see how ***** stupid they are when their asses are voted out. They are attacking the VERY people that put them in...just like the Republicans did.
- xerus, on 11/13/2007, -8/+71xcuse me wtf r u doin
- omgTHEPATRIOTS, on 11/12/2007, -0/+47Absolutely idiotic. Are these guys trying to throw the election or what??
- insomniac8400, on 11/13/2007, -0/+44This is disgusting. What does financial aide have to do with copyright infringement. This is a first step at making all ISPs police the internet.
- arbulus, on 11/14/2007, -0/+44The file sharing only shows how failed the business models are. The reaction to it is corrupt. chaucer's comment is incredibly appropriate and accurate. The GM and Ford analogies are spot on. The RIAA and MPAA own so many legilators and they are using their bully power for protect their failing model.
- VaporBro, on 11/12/2007, -0/+39Good to know that priorities are in order here in the US. Could you imagine if an entire University lost their aid? Riiiiiiiots....Zombiiiiies...Bonnnngs...all at the same time.
- Smwbigboss, on 11/13/2007, -1/+39And there's nothing we can do about it. Bribery is legal :(
- technoredneck, on 11/12/2007, -0/+36It's kind of funny, too, because they're clearly going to die out anyway. Whining to the government for what is essentially corporate welfare only goes to show how they're on their last legs and bound to fall mighty damn soon. And, regardless, this legislation won't make people buy more movies or music; if anything, it will a handful of people spiteful and more likely to pirate.
- tcpip4lyfe, on 11/13/2007, -1/+35Correction: ***** Congress, ***** Democrats, ***** Republicans, ***** Bush, ***** Cheney, ***** this administration, ***** cooperations, ***** big business, ***** the RIAA, and ***** everything I'm forgetting. It is stuff like this that makes me wish I wasn't so into news a politics so I could just live in a mindless bliss.
- ElectricMunk, on 11/12/2007, -1/+34I guess this is the "important business of the people" they were refering to when they declined to go after impeachment.
***** scumbags of the highest order.
We clearly can't delve into the poisoned waters of the GOP....and the Dems (whom I had a fleeting hope for) are just as corrupt...they just smile as they rape you.
We need a vote of no confidence on the ballot...or, better yet, if a candidate can't get 51% of the entire voting eligible Americans to show and vote for them then we declare a mis-election.
Ohh...and the media and airwaves need to go back to the people ASAP. - spucky, on 11/13/2007, -0/+31God Damn It! I HATE my party. I'm starting a new one.
Vote straight spucky party 2008! (It is never to be capitalized, because, well, damn, we don't deserve it.) - luchid, on 11/13/2007, -3/+34Plus, profit is NOT A RIGHT. Government should step aside.
- asdfuiop, on 11/12/2007, -1/+31Move DIG. For great justice.
- Ratteler, on 11/13/2007, -3/+33We can execute the *****. If the law doesn't protect us, it CAN'T protect them either.
- cecinestpasvrai, on 11/13/2007, -2/+31Even if enacted at this point, It's seriously questionable how it can be enforced. Everyone I know in college shares most of their music across enclosed school networks. iTunes makes this ridiculously easy.
Here's to Aiding and Abetting:
Ourtunes: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15730
MyTunes: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/File-Sharing ... - luchid, on 11/12/2007, -1/+30Nor is it a right to have a profit. If they aren't making enough money, the recording industry should start seeking the answer. If they think it's because of file sharing, let them argue that in court, through regular means, just like everyone. No special provisions, or regulations or laws should be signed for them.
- mlwarrior, on 11/12/2007, -0/+28bingobongony,
I think that you think that you are smart, but you actually are very dumb. You clearly know nothing about economics or business. While this bill does do something to prevent sharing movies/music at will, why should it be the colleges financial responsibility to monitor traffic of some specific organization. This is basically forcing universities to do the riaa's job. Nobody is saying that file sharing is good, they are saying that colleges having to spend loads of money protecting another business's investment is scum to the core. - QuickeningYak, on 11/12/2007, -3/+31So the ??AA has figured out that going after a senior admin. committee of 12 or so instead a student community of thousands is cheaper, faster, and more lucrative.
They want to lay off as much as possible of their procedural costs, and the [name here] U. Federal funding committee will accept the cost of policing as just another cost of doing business.
In so doing, the ??AA gets to raise their expected profit projections immediately, and indenture some funding bound for [name here] U. to help make them more profitable. Effectively, they get an operating cost reduction, and a GIGANTIC open-ended loan account to work with.
The Unis will capitulate to this without hesitation because if enrollment drops, compensation for senior admin. staff at [name here] U. will also drop (possibly to zero). Ultimately, it is the very same senior admins who will ***** glide this decision across the table without pause.
So this is an agreement among senior ??AA execs, elected politicians, and senior admin execs at [insert name] U., all of whom are card-carrying mutual jerk-offs with multi-million dollar homes.
Don't think for a second this decision hasn't all ready been made. - UncleBadTouch, on 11/12/2007, -2/+29Yeah, this is what congress should be focusing on. That way they wont have to try and end the war. /Sarcasm
- pahool, on 11/13/2007, -2/+28It's nice to have a gentle reminder every now and then that democrats suck just as much as republicans. I've sometimes lost sight of that fact during the current administration...
- TenebrousX, on 11/12/2007, -0/+24then they don't need a law to force them to
- Scarfy, on 11/13/2007, -1/+25Well, I dug you up so it shouldn't be long before the FBI arrives at my doorstep.
- kinerry, on 11/12/2007, -0/+23This only punished the poor...wtf are they thinking?
- Apokalyps2547, on 11/12/2007, -1/+23Financial AID not Financial AIDE!
- aukxsona, on 11/12/2007, -0/+22Amen.
- daGUY, on 11/13/2007, -1/+22Wow, this is about the dumbest idea ever. Colleges will waste money installing some anti-piracy system that students will figure out a way to get around, solving nothing. Meanwhile, the schools that don't agree to do this will lose financial aid.
Sounds like a lose-lose scenario for everyone - except for the labels, of course. IMHO this is the lowest stunt they've pulled yet. - leffunov, on 11/12/2007, -0/+20Since it became a crippling social and economic stigma to not graduate from college
- ilikesboobs, on 11/12/2007, -0/+19What these asshats politicians don't seem to get is that the, MPAA/RIAA claims they loose money for every movie that is illegally downloaded. So a poor college kid, who would rather pay for food and beer, then a movie, will download it. Now some of these people will buy a movie if it is really good. But now we will try to punish them by taking away your student aid. Oh guess what the students are now even more poor and won't buy your movies at all.
So either way, the MPAA/RIAA are not gaining any potential money from these kids.
These idiot democrats don't give a ***** about the students or the copyright law, they just want to fill their own pockets with lobbyist money. - postingbh, on 11/12/2007, -0/+19Semantics. Affordable higher education is a privilege... a privilege that every citizen in the world's wealthiest country should have.
- robche, on 11/12/2007, -1/+19the lobbyists are going into over drive
- xerus, on 11/13/2007, -5/+23Walken '08!
- Drahkar, on 11/12/2007, -0/+18You have got to be the biggest moron I have ever heard in recent times. The RIAA and the MPAA are not the owners of the materials. They represent the distributors and publishers. Not the people who made it in the first place or own it.
A growing number of owners are actually disgusted with what the MPAA and the RIAA are doing. Thats why Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead have dropped their publishers. - schroeder, on 11/12/2007, -2/+20Would you rather future generations of dumbasses ruining the country? We as a nation are already less educated than many other countries and a lot of poor people are stuck in the cycle of poverty because they cannot afford a higher education and are subject to sub par schooling. Whether or not it is a right, it should be. Think beyond yourself and think of the nation as a whole.
- Ianki, on 11/13/2007, -0/+18Perfect vote for the working American household with 3 kids who wants to go bankrupt.
Maybe they think those between 18 and 25 wont vote anyways? What sort of past history would give them that idea (putting aside the recent bipartisan increases in political activism from those under 25)? - syroncoda, on 11/12/2007, -12/+30***** them. ***** their money hungry ways. capitalism is DYING. well at least the american understanding of capitalism is failing.
- cnot3, on 11/12/2007, -0/+17What they want isn't capitalism.... true capitalism breeds competition, not handouts from uncle sam.
- doughb82, on 11/12/2007, -0/+17Just out of curiosity, isn't it supposed to be the holder of the copyrights job to police their own copyright not make the federal government or someone else do it for them.
- kinerry, on 11/12/2007, -8/+25Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness includes affordable education for the masses
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