Wednesday, June 19

Campus workshop on digital piracy, copyright

There was a discussion of digital piracy and copyright on campus recently. It's an interesting read about movie and music piracy. Mentioned is a new "six-strike copyright alert system" introduced earlier this year, through copyright holders and ISPs, not the government. This article asserts the new rules don't take fair use into account, and will lead to ISPs being more intrusive of user's contents. I wonder if this may effect computers on campus being shut off due to copyright violations, if will people now get warnings instead of being shut down.

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