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The universities should unite to defend themselves collectively. Combined they are surely more powerful than the music industry. Or they could just get out of
by pg 18y ago
The universities should unite to defend themselves collectively. Combined they are surely more powerful than the music industry.
Or they could just get out of the business of supplying data connections. They don't run their own electric power plants anymore. Why do they have to supply Internet connectivity? They should just let students get it on the open market.
- coryrc 18y ago> They don't run their own electric power plants anymore They don't? http://www.harrisgroup.com/node/262 http://www.harrisgroup.com/node/262 This extortion thing has happened many times, but did they band together before? There was some false patent about live video streaming and my university (Michigan Tech) had the choice to fight it (and probably win) at 4x cost or pay license fees of x (sorry I don't remember the figures). Well, MTU paid the fees and the company probably moved onto the next school. I wonder why higher education is so expensive...
- ivankirigin 18y agoGetting the internet from UCLA was awesome. It was super fast. And this was in the glory days of Napster. Considering the way housing works, I kind of doubt the heavily regulated private players would be better.