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According to the Yale Daily News, Yale officals say the university has “hired an agent to identify illicit file sharing.” The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act is cited as the motivation behind this move, though the act only requires service providers to remove or block access to copyrighted information after receiving notification from the copyright’s owner. To top it off, Yale has reduced the maximum possible Kazaa connection speed to a slothly 50 kb per second, allowing students to download a sizeable movie over the course of about a week...
Multiple extensions of copyright terms over the past 40 years, they said, have caused the terms to be closer to unlimited than limited...
...only thing being promoted is the continued wealth of corporate copyright holders,” said Donna Wentworth, an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, an institution founded by Nesson and Zittrain. “Not only is the public domain of ideas—our shared cultural history—robbed, but the public has to pay a ‘copyright tax’ to make use of creative works that, barring Congress’ repeated extension of copyright, would already have been theirs...
Legislators counter that extensive copyright terms support intellectual progress by protecting authors and inventors and making American copyrights comparable in length to international terms...
They contend that CTEA does not make copyright terms “unlimited,” only extended...