{"id":489,"date":"2007-11-12T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/11\/12\/legislating-napster\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T13:05:45","slug":"legislating-napster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/11\/12\/legislating-napster\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislating Napster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/122\/293086641_a41e28934e_m.jpg\" height=\"229\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 229px\" \/>Here is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Democrats-Colleges-must-police-copyright%2C-or-else\/2100-1028_3-6217943.html\">a bill <\/a>that I hope dies before becoming law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. House of Representatives <a href=\"http:\/\/edlabor.house.gov\/bills\/HEAReauthorizationText.pdf\"><font color=\"#0048c0\">bill (PDF)<\/font><\/a>, which was introduced late Friday by top Democratic politicians, could give the movie and music industries a new revenue stream by pressuring schools into signing up for monthly subscription services such as Ruckus and Napster. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/College-students-take-to-Ruckus\/2100-1027_3-6163173.html\" title=\"College students take to Ruckus -- Wednesday, Feb 28, 2007\"><font color=\"#0048c0\">Ruckus<\/font><\/a> is advertising-supported, and Napster charges a monthly fee per student.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If\u00a0universities do not implement technologies that give students alternatives to illegal downloading, all federal financial aid for students (even students that don&#8217;t own computers) would be forfeited.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that this legislation protects a business model instead of the rights of Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a bill that I hope dies before becoming law.\u00a0 The U.S. House of Representatives bill (PDF), which was introduced late Friday by top Democratic politicians, could give the movie and music industries a new revenue stream by pressuring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/11\/12\/legislating-napster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[339,336,340,2],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-edtech","tag-copyright","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}