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Discuss “Universities are not RIAA’s watchmen”

In July, Senator Harry Reid (D – Nev.) put forth a new amendment to the Higher Education Act. Had it been passed, it would have required the top 25 schools that use peer-to-peer file sharing networks to enforce anti-downloading technology across campus. This means that universities would have been legally required to fight illegal downloading and report on the measures taken to the MPAA and the RIAA (who would have maintained the top-25 list).

Although the amendment was dropped, issues remain. As Charles Nesson and John Palfrey, two members of the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, wrote in a letter in June, “Universities should have no part in this extraordinary process.” They go on to implore that universities...

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