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May
1
IU Gets Spike Of RIAA Notices
Filed Under education, Indiana University, internet | 2 Comments
IU Official Says Info Doesn’t Match
Wired reports that Indiana University — as well as other universities around the midwest — are getting a lot of copyright infringement notices from the RIAA, but that the information contained in the notices doesn’t match what university computer records show.
Indiana University says that starting on April 21, the Recording Industry Association of America began sending 80 legal notices a day to the university, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Typically, the university handles less than 100 such notices a month from the RIAA, the Motion Picture Association of America and HBO combined.
The DMCA notices include information about a specific IP address, file sharing protocol and named infringing file.
Indiana University’s tech staff routinely compare those details against the university’s logs to make sure that the allegations are accurate, according to Mark Bruhn, an associate vice president of IU’s information technology department.
But many of the recent notices don’t correspond to entries in traffic logs, which also don’t show any overall increase in file sharing, Bruhn said.
It’s interesting that Indiana University’s computer logs don’t match the information contained in the allegations of copyright violations.
Mar
27
Should We Shut Down Failing Schools?
Filed Under economy, education | 8 Comments
The CEO of AT&T says that his company is having trouble finding qualified U.S. workers and that failing school systems that can’t graduate educated future workers should meet the fate of businesses that can’t compete.
(Randall) Stephenson said he is especially distressed that in some U.S. communities and among certain groups, the high school dropout rate is as high as 50 percent.
“If I had a business that half the product we turned out was defective or you couldn’t put into the marketplace, I would shut that business down,” he said.
Is it time to shut down failing school systems for the good of our communities and the United States?
Should schools be allowed to continue to pump out uneducated and unskilled citizens who aren’t able to compete in the global workforce where Indian workers with graduate degrees and PhDs are willing to take on assignments via email for American companies for prices that are significantly lower than those charged by American workers with less education?
Is the greatest danger to America not external threats that can be defeated by our superior military forces, but internal threats exacerbated by the failure of the American educational system to teach students so that every one can become a productive citizen?
Should system administrators who are creating whole cohorts of citizens who are so miseducated that they are likely to become the next generation of government dependents or the drones of the underground economy be stripped of their offices?
What’s the best way to solve our educational system’s failures?
