Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds

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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.'"



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[breetclinton]

I want to say that now Congress is fighting for the piracy & education funds.I think that government should take care of such things & manage it properly.

[jekyball]

The proposal would earmark federal funds for the education of measures re-pit piracy on college campuses.The most concern is the wording of the bill. He asserted that the proposal "cost savings broadband telecommunications." In other words, the government will fund private packet filtering and bandwidth-allocation preferences. '