Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds

Nomihn0 writes "The RIAA has announced that the House Education and Labor committee is considering an amendment, HR1689, to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The proposal would allocate federal education funds to anti-piracy measures on college campuses. Most concerning is the bill's wording. It's claimed that the proposal would 'save telecommunications bandwidth costs.' In other words, the government will fund private packet filtering and preferential bandwidth allocation. 'The Higher Education Act (HEA) generally allows schools to spend the money they receive only on certain prescribed areas such as financial aid grants and Pell loans. The new bill would allow that money to be used for more things, but does not contain a request for additional funding. Whether schools would be interested in using a limited pool of federal money to police student file-swapping remains to be seen.'"

Yuk.

[flitty]

In the year 2000, in the year 2000!

Students will learn from virtual classrooms, because the RIAA had taken all of the money for real campuses to fight online piracy.

In the year 2000, in the year 2000!

Can any one say D.A.R.E.?

[Starteck81]

That'll be about as effective as the Drug Abuse Resistance Education class that taught all the pot heads in high school new ways to make a bong from a tin can. I mean common, it's not like people don't know what they're doing. They are either mad at the industry for all the DRM bull shit or they are just cheap and steal. Schools have never been super effective in teaching morals on stuff like this. In the end a person will do what ever is in their nature whether that means they'll pay for music or download it P2P.

I foresee class going like this.

Teacher: Class stay away from Bittorrent, Limewire and other P2P programs. You can download movies and songs without paying and that's bad because you're stealing.

Student: Wait, you don't have to pay?...How do you spell Bittorrent, I'm gonna go look that up!

Great...

[djones101]

So my federal student aid, which I amazingly want to use to actually finish my education, can now be used to sue one of my classmates to the point that they are forced to drop out of school, which reduces job income, and eventually works through the cycle into the fact that I get even less student aid than I got before. Self-perpetuating destruction of the college education system...brought to you by the RIAA/MPAA/MAFIAA!