MPAA gets Congress to write a bill to cut university funding if they don't fight downloads

Apparently EVERYONE at a university could lose ALL Federal aid if the university doesn't comply. And I'm sure there is plenty of money provided to help universities add the bodies that will be required to monitor the software that they'll have to install to control file downloading. Oh, there's no additional fundage? That's OK, university's have so much money left over for salaries, we'll just take a little money from the football teams, they won't mind. ;-)

Yep, Democrats, just like Republicans, are our friends.

http://www.news.com/Democrats-Colleges-must-police-copyright%2C-or-else/2100-1028_3-6217943.html?tag=nefd.lede

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/11/0342213

Conspiracy Theories!

Not a bad list, and you can add to it if you know of an original one!

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-11/st_best

Parent's abusing their children's credit

Man, I'd heard of identity thieves stealing kid's SSNs for credit cards and such, I guess I shouldn't be surprised when parents do it.

"It was her first credit card application, or so she thought, prompted by an offer on her Ohio college campus for a free T-shirt.

But a rejection letter uncovered troubling news someone had already opened four credit cards in her name and racked up $50,000 in debt.

That someone, it turns out, was her father."

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/11/56570

A different perspective on the writer's strike by Mike Straszinski, the man behind Babylon 5

http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17690