CALL YOUR SENATOR NOW! Senate trying to force colleges to buy snoopware for copyright enforcemen

By Cory Doctorow at 4:57 pm Monday, Jul 23

EFF's Derek Slater sez, "Major copyright holders are backing a legislative proposal to make colleges do their dirty work. The Higher Education Act is supposed to make going to college more affordable, but, under a last-minute amendment, certain schools would risk losing federal funding for student aid if they don't divert funds away from education and toward policing corporate copyrighted content on their campus network. Twenty-five schools will annually be singled out, required to police their students with 'technology-based deterrents' (read: network surveillance technologies), and forced to provide evidence to the Secretary of Education about their efforts to stop file sharing. This amendment may come up for a vote tomorrow or later this week, so please call your Senators now using EFF's Action Center." (Thanks, Derek!)