Robert Synnott

Gann

[www.depmed.ualberta.ca]

lincolnparadox

Buran

deadlizard

axiomatic

I hate how with each passing year this country turns into more of a lapdog for the big corporations. As long as we get a treat we'll sit still and look pretty.

It's actually starting to remind me of ancient Japan with the Samurai (corporations) who possessed all the money and power bleeding the people to death.

The sad thing is the vast majority of the U.S. population is either too stupid to notice, too complacent to care or worse, have become so used to their "necessities" that they're unable to do what sometimes needs to be done (boycott products, change habbits, not pay 3+ freaking dollars for gas!).

asphix20

I am sooooo glad I graduate in May!

ethanrik

so let's do this. either throw us all in jail or change the f-ing laws already. i'm tired of this crap.

mac-phisto

Benstein

Let's outlaw spoons next. Spoons are harmless. Unless I decide to dig your eye out with one. Then it's a dangerous weapon. Clearly, since it has has potential to be used illegally and can be carried in my pocket, it should classify as a concealed weapon and be considered illegal.

Sidecutter

It's already started with the word "encryption."
I've worked very closely with two Universities and their networking staff. It's maddening going through meetings with just DEALING with the bandwidth issue, now they have to filter stuff AND provide some kind of alternative? Sheesh. What should the Uni's networking staff compromise first? Everyone's right to have some kind of privacy on the internet? Or will it be cutting off LEGAL P2P services and getting a tongue lashing from students, faculty and parents when these things are halted?

This Bill is an unnecessary burden to IT staffs, faculty and students, just because two corporate entities couldn't embrace new technology.

BookbagNinja

The RIAA and MPAA are two major entities that should have been the FIRST to cross the digital divide and adapt new business models to augment and build-up their already monopolistic existence. But, as we can see from this bill, they were the LAST to join the foray, so instead of just trying to be competitive in their respective markets, they are just beating up the very people and institutions that got them to the point that they are now.

Where would all these politicians, businessmen, and marketing folks be without the colleges and universities that educated them in the beginning?

BookbagNinja

Let us share our music, the only people it hurts is the record execs anyway...

Don't limit school funding because we share files...

moorem2

fwiw, I don't really work on the network or student side of things, so I don't know the specifics. And I do know of a few ways around the blocks we have in place.

But we do have the most common means of p2p that the average student is going to try to use (torrents, limewire, emule, ect)

madanthony

viqas

DeltaPurser

FLConsumer

elislider

As far as legal alternatives, we did offer CDigix for a while, but then they kind of went out of the music business.

madanthony

Luckily for sane people everywhere, the White House has already made veto-noises at the bill for other reasons

Such as?

Papa Midnight

goodkitty

Maybe the RIAA / MPAA Could Learn a Lesson from the Anti-smoking campaign:
Telling people not to smoke and taxing the bejesus out of tabacco didn't curb smoking. It took a marketing campaign that actually gave people another cause to get behind (Truth campaign) to actually see decreases in smoking (especially in teens). Don't tell them no, figure out how to channel the energy for good.

Don't criminalize your customers, invent (I know, it's tough) a better way to give your customers what they want. Be willing to obsolete your own model before someone else does. Companies that haven't been willing to step up to the plate and re-invent themselves always make it 10 times harder later on when they do come around (Kodak).

**cough**radiohead**cough**successful**cough

snwbrder0721

StevieD

smitty1123

DeltaPurser