MPAA justifies tying college funding to stopping piracy

Despite the overwhelmingly critical response to plans to tie the college aid of all students, not just those caught infringing, the MPAA continues to hold fast on the plan, arguing:

Universities are spending a lot of taxpayers' money to build digital networks that are being used primarily to allow college students to traffic in infringing content. I think it's perfectly legitimate for Congress to say, wait a minute, if we're giving you money, we don't want it to be used to help college kids infringe copyright.

The bill as it stands would punish the entire university if even one student is caught illegally downloading content. But the justification according to the movie industry trade group is that the Internet ("digital networks") are only for copyright infringement. I imagine Wikipedia, Google, Amazon, eBay and a few other sites might disagree.

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