US cuts funding to universities

They'd rather have music lover peasants than educated citizens who can also pay for the music they heard in mp3 format and liked.


Education is the foundation on which the fututre of a society is based. This is just one example that shows how much the USA has changed for the worse. When a cartel can dictate government policies, is that a democracy? I think not.

The Federal Government is not authorized by the Constitution to steal money from its' Citizens and give it to the Liberal mind washing machines called Universities. 

They should use it to pay off their debt, and as a next step get out of all the other areas of activity which they are not authorized to engage in. 

Failure to do so will simply result in the USA becoming as poorly off as Great Britain and Europe.

And then they will regularly check all laptops of everyone in the US.
(for their own security of course)

They started with airports now the rest is for later. (people can't tolerate to much poison at once)

yea, this is exactly what america needs to be doing in a time when china is pulling ahead in the sciences... letting the movie industry dictate education spending.

Get a job instead. You'll learn more.

Theft is an expulsionary offense, and must include jail time for all violations, no matter how small.

Just another way it proves that the U.S. Government.... the most corrupt government in the world..... can be bought for any price. 

Settting the whole "P2P: right or wrong" isue aside.... what we have here is a company (or companies) saying they are having problems with theft, and bribing the government to enact laws to punish the innocent.

Take funding away from schools because somebody says they are losing money? Its insane, but shows how the government can be bought. If I were a student or parent of a student, I would sue the government.

This (RIAA, MPAA, U.S Gov) is all getting out of hand.

Sure, lets dumb the whole nation down by pulling funding to schools so the RIAA can buy a new yacht. If this isn't lobby-ism gone loony I don't know what is.

We can start with the schools that Cary Sherman's kids are going too. We already know of published stories where they own ipods with dubious.sourced music on them.

Government of the corporations, for the corporations, by the corporations.

We shut down P2P and hosting on students long ago. Drags the network response times down too much. It's crazy.

Except, oops, the US Constitution doesn't give the Feds the authority to meddle in education (outside of DC) in the first place.

They gave tons of cash into politician's campaign, it's normal they do something in return for them. Friends come first no ... !?

I bet our friend Bill, here, is on of them. Otherwise why someone would want budget cuts in education, health and so on. You don’t get a powerfull country with poor educated, sick citizens. 

The power is on the hand of the ones who create tools not the one that only use it. 


What we need is more research done by universities into P2P systems that keep information and identities encrypted and anonymous across the entire chain of transmission. Then nobody can prove they, or anyone, had a part in the piracy.

The Democrats have been in control of the House and Senate for about 2 years now. This article is the Democrats priority, not new oil, God forbid they may piss off their tree hugging supporters. This mentality (brainwash the young like Hitler youth by liberal college professors) has been allowed to serve them for too long. The Americans are waking up like we did in WWII.

In order to comply with the MAFIAA's demands, the universities will have to block all Internet traffic and limit the Internet to a minimum. This minimum will be filtered web access and e-mail exchange through a few central proxies. Consequently, researchers will no longer be able to work in an open network. This is already reality at far too many universities and research facilities in the US.

Take a look at GRID computing in the US. Several years ago everybody was talking about grid computing and the Internet2. Then came the MAFIAA and accused all researchers of being pirates. The Inquirer reproduced some of these stories, too. Today, grid computing and Internet2 are de facto dead. Network traffic is being blocked everywhere. Communication from computer to computer no longer works. What is left runs with reduced bandwidth thanks to countless firewalls. I face this Internet every day. Officially this was done in the name of "security", but it happened in coincidence with the MAFIAA's claims.

Take the Usenet as another example. Most research centers and universities have no Usenet access (NNTP server) anymore and only refer to Google. Google is not the Usenet. The Usenet began to disappear several years ago. At one US research facility the NNTP server was turned off because the lab's computer center claimed they could not replace an aging harddisk. Seriously, that was the official reason given in an e-mail. Today, ISPs are being bullied in the name of the children.

In other words, US universities and research facilities get an Internet that is as primitive and useless as the original AOL model. And we will pay for that.

Your typical Fox News client may see education and research only as a tax burden. But China, Europe, India, Japan and most other countries understand education and research as an investment into the future. I can only hope that the US Congress will disengage itself from a corrupt media and entertainment MAFIAA.

The use of threats to withhold Federal funding is a common tactic in the US to force compliance with legislation that would otherwise not pass the smell test. I'd dearly like to cut the Federal government down to size but that's not going to happen any time soon so let's see how far this one gets them.

The Feds have just handed the students a challenge. I expect they'll rise to the occasion, just as they've always done in the past.

Incidentally, most students don't live on campus.

This will GREATLY increase the Univercity boffins interest in encrpriptted P2P and all other such trickery. Whack A Mole.......

Are we supposed to be surprised now that politicians are pushing legislation that their financial backers want? This happens all over the world people not just in the US.

One important thing to keep in mind is that the government only provides funding to public Universities, and the vast majority of the Colleges and Universities in the US are private institutions that receive no government aid (which is why the cost of tuition is astronomical).

The public Universities will simply do what they have been doing for the last few years and put everyone on the campus network behind a firewall to prevent them from accessing P2P networks and also install any monitoring software the RIAA/MPAA requests. The public Universities will do this because they can be sued as easily as the students can for allowing the infringement to occur over their network.


This will set the precedent that any external body can make a complaint and get funding to public services cut.

Typical America. Hey, let's punish and humiliate our own children so we can make some more money off them. "Stupid" doesn't even begin to cover it.