colleges and universities

Back in 2008, we wrote about how the MPAA convinced Congress to pass legislation to make colleges and universities responsible for reducing copyright infringement on campus or lose federal funding.

The law was really a trial run of sorts -- an attempt to see how this could work for making ISPs responsible.

Of course, in order to get the law passed, the MPAA flat out lied.

Linux.com: "Colleges and universities have long been proficient contributors to free and open source software projects, dating back to the early days of the Internet, so it should come as no surprise that they create open source software no meet their own operational needs.

One of the biggest fields is online courseware..."