Congress to Universities: Stop File Sharing or Lose Financial Aid for all Your Students
November 12th, 2007 by MrsBarnes
Friday, democrats introduced a bill to the house that would require universities to give students alternatives and set up deterrents to file-sharing. Don’t do it, and no more federal aid for the students at the school.
If passed, and universities have to sign up to a subscription music service for their students, this would be a huge payday for the music industry. Alternatively, they could just figure out a way to filter files over their system (as some universities do) and still be within the law, but that may be costly and harder to do.
The chancellor of the University of Maryland system, the president of Stanford University, the general counsel of Yale University, and the president of Penn State said the following in a letter to congress:
“Such an extraordinarily inappropriate and punitive outcome would result in all students on that campus losing their federal financial aid–including Pell grants and student loans that are essential to their ability to attend college, advance their education, and acquire the skills necessary to compete in the 21st-century economy, Lower-income students, those most in need of federal financial aid, would be harmed most under the entertainment industry’s proposal.”
Exactly. Â
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