Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans

theodp writes "The MPAA is applauding top Democratic politicians for introducing an anti-piracy bill that threatens the nation's colleges with the loss of a $100B a year in federal financial aid should they fail to have a technology plan to combat illegal file sharing. The proposal, which is embedded in a 747-page bill, has alarmed university officials. '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,' said university officials in a letter to Congress. 'Lower-income students, those most in need of federal financial aid, would be harmed most under the entertainment industry's proposal.'"

Yep, take the internet away from US control!

[Teun]

If this isn't the perfect example why nations like China and Russia want control of the internet not to be with the US, now you can't even trust them Democrats!

;)

Quoting Lewis Black

[denzacar]

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!'
and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

Re:The United States is throughly corrupt.

[ZombieWomble]

It's a typo. From what I've seen on the internet, both the UK and US are chock full of them.

Re:This is GOOD, and while we're at it...

[Opportunist]

No, but I think you just gave me a great idea. Schools should apply the same strategy to filesharing that they use on drugs and sex: Tell the kids to "just say no" and leave it at that.

Hey, worked great with drugs and sex, right?

Re:Open Letter

[trawg]

I am extremely concerned about what will happen to America's output of music, movies and TV shows in the event that it falls apart. While the gradual decline in their civil liberties, freedoms, rights, etc is fascinating, if it affects my TV watching I'll be disappointed.