May 23, 2008
States Push Colleges to Fight Online Piracy
Higher-education officials say that the entertainment industry is pushing for state laws that would force colleges to police their networks for illegal trading of music and video files and to buy software to stem the problem.
Lawmakers in Tennessee and Illinois recently considered such legislation, and a similar bill may be brewing in California, according to officials who spoke at a technology-policy conference in Arlington, Va., this month. The conference was sponsored by Educause,
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