This is not good news for higher education. It will put universities responsible for monitoring their user’s internet activities and add significant cost to every institution which will have to be passed on to the students. SOPA is a a very pro-Hollywood act and I hope it is changed or defeated.
By Eva Galperin at Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The House Judiciary Committee will meet today for a hearing on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). What could have been an opportunity for the committee to hear from a variety of stakeholders has devolved into a parade of pro-SOPA partisans. Scheduled to testify are representatives from the Register of Copyrights, Pfizer Global Security, the Motion Picture Association of America, the AFL-CIO, and Mastercard Worldwide—many of which helped to draft this legislation in the first place, and didn’t let anyone else into the room. The only scheduled witness in opposition to the bill is Katherine Oyama, policy counsel on copyright and trademark law for Google.
via Who’s Missing From Today’s SOPA Hearing? A Short List | Electronic Frontier Foundation.