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Ugh, the bill with the horrid p2p provisions passed the house without a word about those provisions. For further reading: Kenneth Green on the bill I’m disgusted. Update: Didn’t pass the house–just the committee. But the vote was unanimous. Sigh. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the…
I am feeling a bit like New Kid today–pretty cranky–and I was going to write something random, but I wanted to comment a bit more on the proposed House legislation that would require colleges and universities to provide legal options for downloading music and require them to have a plan to prevent illegal downloading. Dean…
Democrats have included in the latest higher education bill a provision to punish colleges and universities who do not “develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity.” Congress has been trying to get something…
This week’s Tech Therapy (yes, I listen) is an interview with Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA. About halfway through, Scott Carlson asks a question I sent in (I’m identified by name and school) about whether colleges and universities are doing enough to meet the DMCA requirements. He couches his answer by saying that some…
I hate current copyright law. I’m not a lawyer and I haven’t gone over all of it with a fine-toothed comb, but much of it is dumb and preventing most of us regular people from engaging in activities that are educational, entertaining, and enlightening. What else is there to live for? Many of you know…
I wasn’t going to write about this anymore, but I can’t help myself. Yesterday, the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held a hearing on the issue of downloading on college campuses. Congressman Howard Berman suggests that colleges aren’t really doing enough to combat piracy. He claims colleges are hypocrites, saying: Perhaps the…
Ironically, after my last post, I started doing some searching to see what else was going on with this recent RIAA crackdown and I found out that Gizmodo has declared a boycott. They did not suggest the boycott in order to increase downloads or condone illegal downloads, but to point out that you can buy…
The RIAA is increasing its efforts to stop downloading on college campuses. Their new strategy involves sending out settlement letters to students. The letters, presumably, will be more threatening than the current takedown notices they send out regularly. I happen to be our campus DMCA agent. I’m the one who receives those takedown notices and…
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