November 30, 2007

The Digital Carrot, the Digital Stick

By GREGORY A. JACKSON

I was the fifth witness. The issue before the House Committee on Science and Technology at a hearing in June was copyright infringement and illegal file sharing — specifically, the extent to which technology could combat the problem on university networks.

When I testified, most members of the committee clearly believed that technology could solve the problem effectively. Given this month's decision by the House education committee to continue the search for technological

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