The fine fine people at Artists House Music Tweeted this article and it immediately caught my attention. I wanted to reply to them but 140 characters is not enough for what I want to say. Then I thought, I have a blog! Yay! I’ll just write something there.
AND THE REST WAS HISTORY.
So I’ll just reprint what the article says, since it’s pretty short and some people (like me) don’t like to click on a bunch of links sometimes. It reads:
A few legislative notes:
Yesterday (the very day the CMA Awards were hosted in Nashville) Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen signed into law SB 3794, a bill that requires all public and private universities and colleges in the state to take proper steps to assure that their networks are not being used to illegally trade copyrighted material. It also requires each school to develop and enforce a policy for computer usage, network usage and ethics. The House IP subcommittee was abolished and will be bumped up to a full Judiciary committee.
My immediate thought upon reading this was: they’re gonna screw it up and get a bunch of college students pissed off at them.