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Dec
Just found this post over at the excellent Wiretap site. Basically a new government initiative in the states will stop a schools funding for EVERY student if one of the is found illegally downloading copyrighted material…
The real eye opener: noncompliant schools would lose all their federal funding, for all their students. No more Pell Grants. No more federal financial aid. No more student loans. This is not just draconian punishment for students who break the law, this punishes all students at that institution even if they did nothing!
Schools would be required to endorse a “legal alternative”. Will we start to see the big media companies courting schools like they have done with radio stations?
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