Colleges and universities narrowly escaped being forced to implement campus antipiracy technologies in exchange for funding Tuesday when a scaled-back version of a proposed piece of legislation, substituted at the 11th hour, won Senate approval. The original amendment to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act, proposed last week by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would have required a select group of colleges and universities to install and use technology to prevent illegal sharing on campus — or lose their Title IV government funding.
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Senate Votes to Keep Colleges Off Antipiracy Hot Seat
Posted by: Katherine Noyes July 25, 2007 03:10 PMColleges and universities narrowly escaped being forced to implement campus antipiracy technologies in exchange for funding Tuesday when a scaled-back version of a proposed piece of legislation, substituted at the 11th hour, won Senate approval. The original amendment to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act, proposed last week by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would have required a select group of colleges and universities to install and use technology to prevent illegal sharing on campus — or lose their Title IV government funding.