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- retr0grade, on 02/08/2008, -0/+5this is idiocy. I hope the deadlock in the Senate is enough to make sure the bill dies in committee.
- chiefbttlwshr, on 02/08/2008, -1/+3Let me break this down to make this easy for you.
Government is responsible to create and enforce law.
College is not Government.
NEW LAW:
College responsible for actions of students on their networks.
Now police copyright law, later _________?
Think about that, you'll get it. - chiefbttlwshr, on 02/08/2008, -1/+2It is about Colleges being told to enforce the law or loose federal funding.
Did you RTFA? - chiefbttlwshr, on 02/08/2008, -1/+2If that doesn't do it for you (seeing it my way) let me take your logic a bit further....
The Federal Government gave the Telcos billions and billions of dollars to develop their fiber infrastructure.
Since there is a great deal of illegal content on the internet that is posted through these telco's networks, then ATT, Verizon, Comcast etc should police their networks for illegal content or give the money back to the government.
Absolutely ridiculous! - laaabaseball, on 02/08/2008, -1/+2*closes Bittorrent*
- chiefbttlwshr, on 02/08/2008, -1/+2shows to go ya what lobbing money can do these days.
- chiefbttlwshr, on 02/10/2008, -1/+1College STUDENTS not INSTITUTIONS potentially breaking the law, is the college responsible for student actions?
Is Comcast responsible for what I do on their network? - actorboy, on 02/08/2008, -2/+2Copyright is protected by law. It is the government's job to enforce those laws, lobbyist's dollars or not.
- actorboy, on 02/09/2008, -1/+1Maybe you should try thinking about it my way, then. I'm a working actor. I often rely on residuals from the sale of my work to eat. I have to pay taxes on those residuals. I don't think my tax dollars should go toward funding students' internet connections so they can rip me off...so I have less income, but still have to pay taxes, so they can rip me off, so I have less income, but still have to pay taxes, so they can rip me off.
You want my tax dollars to subsidize your education? Then don't use the money I send from every paycheck to steal my work. And if you're not adult enough to keep your sticky fingers off that work, then I will go to the people who are dispensing my tax dollars to you. - chiefbttlwshr, on 02/10/2008, -1/+1At least you are honest, your "acting intellectual property" is not the issue; it's the money.
I got it.
For the record I am 35 yrs old with 3 children and have been out of school for some time.
While the legality of downloading content is a point of contention:
(If I go buy a CD and pay for "intellectual property" and 5 yrs later the disk is damaged, I should be able to go back to the store, have them look me up as having purchased that disk and buy that disk for $0.50 (to pay for the plastic disk and packaging) because I've already payed for the intellectual property, but no, that's not how it works. I have to go and pay for the whole damn thing all over again, that's not fair to me as a consumer. Same with movies, go to the theater, rent it, then buy the disk? CRAP!
No doubt the whole system is defunct, and that is why the RIAA will at some point either have to rethink their business model or go out of business.
Never the less: As a taxpayer who supports universities through my money:
This solves nothing, the college will have to invest money to monitor their networks to act as the police which means that less of that grant goes to things like, oh I don't know EDUCATION.
If you cannot see how stupid and asinine this law is, you sir are lost. - actorboy, on 02/08/2008, -3/+1It colleges want federal funding, they have to follow federal rules. If they don't want to follow those rules, then they need to raise tuitions to fund themselves. It's quite simple, really.
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