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Bill Requiring DRM for Colleges Passes Committee

As we reported earlier, Section 494 of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (pdf) would turn colleges into copyright cops. Now, the bill is in front of the full House thanks to a unanimous committee vote in its favor.

The section (on pp. 411-413 of the draft above) requires schools to buy some sort of “alternative” to infringing peer-to-peer downloading and implement digital rights management technologies on their networks.

This is the worst idea since Title I of the DMCA.