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Re: Schools should be penalized for ignoring piracy
said by GOLFnSUN  :Schools that ignore rampant piracy thru their school's computer networks should be penalized. They have the ability to firewall their systems(just like any corporation does). And failure to do so should be taken in to account when gov't funding is handed out. I completely disagree. Schools, and ISP's for that matter, have no business policing the traffic that passes through their networks any more than makers of alcohol have a responsibility to ensure that no one that consumes their products proceeds to climb behind the steering wheel of a car afterwards. That's what law enforcement is for, plain and simple.
Further, I take issue with how you trivialize the process involved in tracking P2P offenders; just because an institution has a firewall doesn't mean the activities of their users are trackable in any easy way. In my experience, a great deal of effort has to be made when reacting to DMCA complaints. The original complaint has to be documented, and responded to. The DHCP logs have to be searched for a user corresponding to the dates the supposed infringement took place. The user has to be contacted. The original complainant has to be notified that you have warned the supposed infringer. This cycle goes on and on endlessly, and is why larger ISP's now have entire departments dedicated to nothing but responding to DMCA complaints. Schools would have to expand their IT departments, and who is going to pay for that? Why should the honest students be forced to subsidize DMCA investigations when they're already (over)paying ridiculous tuition costs?
We have law enforcement agencies for a reason.
- Tate
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