College funding bill passed with anti-P2P provisions intact

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 2, 2008 5:57 AM EDT
ars technica; By Ryan Paul
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The Senate and House have voted to reauthorize the Higher Education Act and approved controversial new provisions that will require universities to provide students with access to commercial music downloading services and implement traffic filtering technologies in order to deter peer-to-peer filesharing. The bill now goes to President Bush, who is expected to sign it into law.

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