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RE: How?
By Lonyo on 11/12/2007 5:56:42 PM , Rating: 2
They shouldn't be able to dictate federal funding for educational institutions is what I mean.
I do understand that money means power means laws, but they shouldn't be able to affect funding for things like education.
I'm not saying piracy is good, but threatening to stop money for education because of piracy is also not good.

In the long run you could even argue it would lead to people who don't get the funding being unable to go to university, getting a lower paying job, and being less able to afford to purchase music/films/etc legally.

RE: How?
By mdogs444 on 11/12/2007 7:41:50 PM , Rating: 2
They arent threatening to cut off funds because someone committed piracy. They are threating to cut off funds if the institutions dont put in place a method to try and stop piracy from their intranets.

Big difference.

RE: How?
By Christopher1 on 11/12/07, Rating: 0
RE: How?
By mdogs444 on 11/12/2007 10:13:42 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, actually its a big difference between letting your students do whatever they want on YOUR intranet, or controlling what can be done on YOUR intranet.

Behind the times or not, and whether you and whoever else deem the product is worth the price is not the point. It's a free market, and supply/demand determine the prices.

You are quite wrong on who pirate. People pirate becuase they CAN, not be because they think the product is too expensive. Its easy, and readily available. Dont make excuses by trying to saying that $15 is so is expensive that no one can afford it. If they cannot afford $15, then music should be the last thing they are worrying about.

RE: How?
By Spuke on 11/13/2007 1:12:59 PM , Rating: 2
I can see why there are so many "feel good" laws on the books. He's right, there is NO real way to stop this from happening. You simply create Wile E Coyote vs the Roadrunner situation. Each person or group (the students and the campus IT staff) continually "one-ups" the other, forever and ever, and NOTHING is accomplished other than someone, somewhere feels good about what's happening.

IMO, trying doesn't do anything and is worse than not doing anything. With trying, you waste time and money. Of course you'll attack this point so I will say this: if the MPAA and RIAA REALLY want something done about this, hire some supernerds to find a technical solution to this, THEN offer that solution to their customers (universities in this case).

Threats don't work, period. And jeopardizing our future education is just plain retarded. You and I both know that if this is passed, some future college WILL have its funding revoked even though they have proper measures in place to prevent illegal downloading.

RE: How?
By clovell on 11/13/2007 5:25:12 PM , Rating: 1
> Not a big difference, because there is NO foolproof or even half-assed way of doing that, in all reality.

The how are ISPs able to throttle bandwith to chronic P2P users? There must be some sort of method of detection...


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