Congress Asks Universities To Curb Piracy 405
The Illegal Subset of the Integers writes "According to Ars Technica, Congress has sent letters to 19 universities identified by the RIAA and MPAA as havens for copyright infringement. In it, they not only seek to discover what these universities are doing to dissuade students from infringing activities, but give the implied threat. House Judiciary Committee member Lamar Smith (R-TX) was quoted as saying, 'If we do not receive acceptable answers, Congress will be forced to act.'
One wonders, though, what the universities are supposed to do when international disrespect for imaginary property rights is so widespread that there are currently over two million hits on Google for a certain oft-posted illegal number, up from the three hundred thousand hits from sometime yesterday."
DC++ (Score:5, Funny)
Then I come to
They're out to get me. *huddles in a corner, grasping at his tinfoil hat*
Piracy definitely needs to be stopped! (Score:5, Funny)
It's about time Congress stepped up to protect the people from these pirates! I had to miss class that day (that's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
And in other news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I would like to ask Congress... (Score:5, Funny)
Their reply (Score:4, Funny)
As requested by the MPAA we are currently doing everything we can to ban the numbers 0, 9, 11, 2, 9, 74, 5, 8, 41, 56, 5, 63, 56, 88 and the letters f, d, e, b, and c from our campus. The math and english departments are giving us some resistance, but we should have them under control soon.
--The University
Re:Piracy definitely needs to be stopped! (Score:3, Funny)
Perfect Politics (Score:3, Funny)
Step 2: Appeal to government funded institutions to provide free customer service
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!!!
Re:Depends on how they "act" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Response (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Response (Score:1, Funny)
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3680555/SpiderMan.3.2
Re:"Imaginary property rights"? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Congress... isn't what you think it is. (Score:2, Funny)
John Adams: A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair. But no, You sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?