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- TritonX, on 11/14/2007, -5/+823Wow, the US government is now trying to extort itself, impressive.
- Sep11insidejob, on 11/14/2007, -13/+718***** the RIAA
- whatthefu, on 11/14/2007, -7/+571Why the ***** would students want Napster and Rhapsody?
- oneoverzero, on 11/14/2007, -6/+499I wonder how long it will be before they realize that their business model is broken and there's nothing they can do to fix it.
- mrfreeziexp, on 11/14/2007, -1/+442I think the lack of colleges will cause far more harm to America than downloading Prince's new cd.
- Celeron, on 11/14/2007, -6/+381Our nation is run by idiots.
- bugsy187, on 11/14/2007, -0/+204I think they're bluffing. Imagine the outrage if federal funding was actually cut. If the RIAA and government are serious, they're truly insane. Talk about screwed up priorities.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -9/+208I hope this gets submitted 20 more times and makes the front page every time!
- ghostlywind, on 11/14/2007, -2/+201***** RIAA using their terrorist tactics trying to scare the schools into doing what they want them to do.
- Racerx52, on 11/14/2007, -3/+193I hope the universities don't do it.
- kreatre2007, on 11/14/2007, -1/+169This is ***** up! They assume that ALL college students pirate music and that ALL college students would want some stupid subscription to a substandard music service.
- shirosamurai, on 11/14/2007, -4/+159Seriously, ***** this fascist *****. I'm so tired of it. I'm not one of those guys who goes around proclaiming America is a police state, but I'll be damned if this bill passes. The government has sold itself out to corporate interests. No other "free" country in the world comes up with such asinine *****. Good god I can't wait till I graduate -- I'm getting the hell out of here.
- kindrobot, on 11/14/2007, -2/+94Here's a pipe dream for you...
All universities decide to defy the new law and guess what happens?
That's right. The universities would win.
But they will not. Nobody has balls in this country anymore, it would seem.
We'll see.
When a group of companies can control public educational systems in this country, we will have lost so much more than funding. But we were already headed down that road, weren't we?
This bill is starting to border on what many would consider fighting words. Be very careful.
Any lawmaker who looks at this seriously is toying with the very foundation of our society for the needs of a few corporations. It's a dangerous proposal and has very little to do with downloading of anything. This is a testing of the waters.
This needs to be treated as a criminal investigation into corruption. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) should be seriously looked at as well as the lobbying surrounding them and the associated campaign funds/perks. - zomgflamer, on 11/14/2007, -19/+102Bitch I paid mother ***** tax for school and many other ***** working class americans. Suck my pirate hook bitch arse RIAA and crawl back in to the ***** hole u came out from.
- clickmyface, on 11/14/2007, -0/+74Thankfully the bill wont ever pass in its current state:
1) They would have to provide additional funding for infrastructure to enforce it.
2) $9.95 times nearly 15,000 students here at my university would cost $150,000. Thats just one medium sized school. My state alone would have to spend well over a million.
3) You cant force state funded institutions to buy music rental subscriptions. - LankyGoRar, on 11/14/2007, -8/+72Time to go to private school.
- dawnraid101, on 11/14/2007, -6/+68***** the RIAA, ***** the MPAA and ***** whoever shut down demonoid, bastards
- Chaoticfist, on 11/14/2007, -11/+72I feel sorry for all you guys in the USA, thank god i live in Canada. However i fear that we may end up following your example...."shudders"
- BlackJackJester, on 11/14/2007, -8/+66The whole point of this democracy is that if a majority of people are breaking a law, then the law is flawed, and needs to be revised. Since there is no physical theft, and nothing is actually being stolen (you can claim speculative "would have bought" nonsense all you want), this isn't like "if everyone in America killed someone, we should change the murder laws". Nobody is losing anything of value in file sharing. The government is supposed to be there to protect the people from evil corporations, which is why there are the anti-trust laws and the monopoly laws. If this law passes, I feel there will be hell to pay.
- h4mx0r, on 11/14/2007, -0/+55So are Congressmen George Miller of CA and Ruben Hinojosa of TX are trying to commit political suicide? This ***** is going to hit the fan all over the net, starting with digg..
- Niubai, on 11/14/2007, -3/+57***** you METALLICA !!!
- RocketGib, on 11/14/2007, -0/+53Write your Congresscritters about it! Tell them you don't think the government should be passing laws to tailor to the needs of a failed business model!
- gryphonauto, on 11/14/2007, -3/+52I disagree with people illegally downloading movies/music/games instead of purchasing them, however extorting colleges into enforcing copyright law with taxes we pay is ridiculous!
- Murphy71984, on 11/14/2007, -1/+50Pretty soon we'll have to insert coins into our car radios to even listen.
- matt0baba, on 11/14/2007, -6/+55come to canada! ... great schools, great pot and legal P2P!
and as of a couple of months ago, superior dollar..
we are canadian, and we welcome you with a great big bear hug ;-) - ChrisXPPro, on 11/14/2007, -0/+47Um Since When Was The RIAA Part of the Government? Its an Association Not a Government Agency!
- noseeme, on 11/14/2007, -7/+51My school gives us a subscription, it's pretty schweet... But I guess you could say I am paying for it in the long run.
- bonoboho, on 11/14/2007, -2/+45i dunno. prince is pretty awful.
- bjornski, on 11/14/2007, -1/+44And so is everybody who pays taxes to support your education.
- stonedgeek, on 11/14/2007, -1/+44I'm thinking the same thing as you bugsy. The universities should laugh in their face and watch them squirm. There's no way the government would cut educational funding in favor of the recording industry and the riaa is retarded for saying so.
- LeeSoong, on 11/14/2007, -3/+44riaa is -not- a government agency, they only think they are gestapo.
i disagree with strong arming universities, enforcing non-copying is the job of drm encryption software companies, not other people.
should the universities buy boat locks for all the fishing boats in Alaska?
no, the security measures of Alaskan fishing boats are the responsibility of the fishing companies, just as security measures for music is the responsibility of music companies.
the music industry should stop trying to shift -their- security costs onto other people.
it's not the responsibility of others to do their work for them. - SiNN4R, on 11/14/2007, -10/+50Why is it everything you say is ***** retarded?
- dawnraid101, on 11/14/2007, -0/+34wtf man.
- Katana314, on 11/14/2007, -0/+34so basically...lose all students or lose all funding.
- lukehh, on 11/14/2007, -2/+35Disgusting. The RIAA is really hurting / scared? Is their time up soon? Please?
- goeatsmsht, on 11/14/2007, -0/+33Drop outs with wicked music collections...........
- tkotam, on 11/14/2007, -1/+33BTW, in case you don't know VIVID has started telling Universities to stop P2P downloads and provide each students with porn rental subscriptions... :-)
- Chaoticfist, on 11/14/2007, -3/+35I have an idea, why dnt the all the music companies get together on a new system. Where you can download all the songs you want for say 20-30 a month. Where it is DRM free, high quality music, or perhaps 10-20 cents per song. As well based on a peer to peer system, so as that the media companies can avoid using all their bandwidth(lowering costs). But now that would be way to hard. O well untill they come up with a system like this i will continue to pirate. As well you can still buy music cds(online or in stores)
O and btw with a system like this i want to be able to download all music, from hip hop, rock, classic, jazz, or whatever. They should try and get major European Bands in on this to as well as Asian Bands. - stklaw, on 11/14/2007, -4/+35I knew what the comment would be before i clicked "view comment"
- Firehed, on 11/14/2007, -2/+32I think we're too far gone at this point for it to make a whole lot of difference.
- RoshanK, on 11/14/2007, -0/+28....Because tuition wasn't high enough in itself.
- xike, on 11/14/2007, -1/+27How do you not know how to spell "roll"?
- wilfordsy, on 11/14/2007, -0/+26Napster and Rhapsody are No Good. Period!
- tomis, on 11/14/2007, -3/+27Has the federal government done anything for us lately? Seams everything useful the government does is on a local level.
- striderx, on 11/14/2007, -0/+24I wrote my congresswoman about this already.... You should too!
- ayeroxor, on 11/14/2007, -2/+26The states were never designed to DEPEND on the federal government. If the states were as independent as intended, the fed could say "you're not getting this money unless you do what we want" and the state could say "suck it." Doesn't that sound like a nicer, more free system to you?
- krische, on 11/14/2007, -0/+22Federal funding tends to be the loop hole around the constitution. Its like the bully stealing lunch money. This is the same thing MADD did to get the drinking age to 21. All states must have 21 drinking age or no federal highway funding.
- ayeroxor, on 11/14/2007, -1/+23"9.95 times nearly 15,000 students here at my university would cost $150,000."
They'd just tack it on to tuition. - asskey, on 11/14/2007, -4/+25Definitely. But I wouldn't mind the government subsidized Napster subscription while I am busy desecrating their remains xD
- Petzke, on 11/14/2007, -1/+21Funding for education will get worse before it gets better. I'm over 20k in debt and about halfway through college... so go for it, drop the federal funding so you'll realize just how screwed up things are and then the system can start to heal itself.
Don't even get me started on how screwed up the RIAA situation is...I don't need to start, everyone already knows except those that can change things. -
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