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Last month, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker told the nation's governing bodies they needed to make intellectual property theft a priority. Well, the House is fed up with the public berating and is finally doing something. A proposed education bill threatens to withhold federal aid from colleges and universities that don't proactively deter file sharing. Along with technical countermeasures, like network throttling, campuses will be asked to find file-sharing alternatives that will eventually wean students off their illicit ways. In other words: Force educational institutions to subsidize Napster's shareholders.
Government cash linked to college file-sharing ban
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2:23 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Mary Jane Irwin
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I remember using "cidigx" (or something like that) once or twice in college. I wasn't impressed, especially when my tuition was paying for it. My college canceled the service within a year or two of trying it. Go figure.
This is silly. It's only a matter of time before all students switch to private p2p software which encrypts all exchanges and lets people share privately with one another with zero risk involved. See [www.gigatribe.com] for an example of the next big thing in p2p file-sharing (it's foldersharing and it rocks!).
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