Annoyed at recent reports that online campus piracy rates top 50 percent, lawmakers warned college and university administrators Thursday if they don’t do more to curb the theft, Congress would.
Complaining that a number of schools refused cooperate with a General Accountability Office (GAO) survey of campus piracy rates, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) said a number of colleges and universities simply are ignoring the problem.
"Unfortunately, many schools have turned a blind eye to piracy," Berman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, said at a hearing to call administrators to task. "Current law isn’t giving universities enough incentive to comply."
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, added campus piracy is still "rampant and widespread" and "too many schools do little or nothing about it. That’s an unacceptable response."
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Vampyre Blade that would be anarchy where everyone can do as they wish. As much as you might not like it government is put in place specifically to limit what you can or can’t do or what you can or can’t own. But they are under the rule of the social majority’s ideals and are supposed to uphold the rules people deem important. So in the end we are under the rule of each and every individual that make up the society in which we live.
a puppet is someone that is totally controled by their government they cant own what they want or do as they wish. they are the ones that cant think for themselves.
Explain to me how you owning a firearm helps protect your country? When was the last time anyone in the united states used a gun to protect the takeover of their country? Is your gun going save you from nukes planes biological warfare etc??? If you blindly support a cause based on a feeling something might happen then your are a puppet. Emotions can blind the best of men but logic can clear the fog. Sadly most people don’t have brains to think for themselves.
you may not like bush but if we had a democrat n office i believe that we would of had more suicide bombers and terrorits attacks on us soil and your right there are republicans too that doing as democrats do but the democrats want this country to be disarmed subjects not citizens who can own firearms.
@ Mountain Rage
amen man…………..used to think the same thing as he but look at Bush. Wont let states do as they see fit in a number of areas from euthanasia to medicinal marijuana……..
You typed it in caps so it must be true right? All politicians want to control what you want to do it doesn’t matter if they are democrat republican or elephant party. New flash to you too Vampyre Blade senator Orin Hatch one of the worst puppet’s of the Riaa is a republican hell the guys a musical artist himself and shouldn’t even have been part of any copyright decisions it was a conflict of interest.
DEOMCRATS WANT TO CONTROL EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE YOU CAN DO OR THINK.
Thats right complain about your future costumers attack the future minds of your country this wont create a problem for your future outlook. These kids wont be the politicians you eventually try to lobby. These are the future minds of the country the best and the brightest. They will be the ones that decide in which direction technology politics science and the economy will follow. Its always a good idea to piss them off young to they hate you when they have the most power.
Oh really? Congress has time to get upset about what the RIAA and MPAA is whining about! Never mind that an insane murderous tyranical war criminal is sitting in the White House; whom they can acutally do something about–instead they choose they choose to prioritize going after university presidents chancellors and or related staff in charge….
Jackasses! Burn in hell in a cell next to the minions of the RIAA.