[ga] More RIAA games:Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

 I can only see that this one upsmanship will force tuition in
Tennessee public universities to increase, make it difficult for
Tennessee law schools at these public universities to attract
the best students or keep the ones they now have. And as
the article properly says is basically an exercise in futility
as P2P is here to stay and the arms race will force RIAA
clients to take yet another look at the RIAA representation
as being advantageous.

  When will the IPC recognize that the RIAA is more of
a liability than they are worth as the seek to thwart and
damage existing legal P2P activity with methods that
are mostly of their own clients making.  Revoke the
RIAA's membership in the IPC!

An Ars Technica report about a proposed
bill in Tennessee which would require state-funded universities to
enforce anti-piracy standards. The universities would be forced to "
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080225-tennessee-legislation-would-turn-schools-into-copyright-cops.html

track down and stop infringing activity" or risk losing their funding.
The U.S. Congress requested last year that certain universities do this
voluntarily. Quoting: "Efforts taken by universities thus far to deter
and prevent piracy have had mixed results. The University of Utah, for
instance, claims that it has reduced MPAA and RIAA complaints by 90
percent and saved $1.2 million in bandwidth costs by instituting
anti-piracy filtering mechanisms. However, the school revealed that
their
filtering system hasn't been able to stop encrypted P2P traffic and
noted
that students will find ways to circumvent any system. The end result,
some say, will be a costly arms race as students perpetually work to
circumvent anti-piracy systems put in place by universities.

Regards,

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