I don't see why the many have to suffer at the cost of a few. I don't even see how this is the college's fault!?

This is just a way for the RAII trying to steal money from eduacation system that could be used to help less fortunate people get a college education.

I hope they fail...

This will fail.

Perhaps memes will arise out of it, though?

I credit even the Bush era administration with more sense than to pass something as anti-competitive and quite frankly blackmailing as this.

I don't think it's entirely true that the Bush administration is responsible for this, private interests have always had the right to lobby Congress for whatever acts they want and historically always have: cigarette lobby, healthcare lobby, alcohol lobby, firearm lobby.

This won't pass.

Next I'll be getting a call from the RIAA saying that I have to provide these idjits out here with "a legal alternative to illegal peer to peer downloading" or they'll have the government pull OUR funding for the kids.

Although it would be hilarious to make that alternative a bus ticket to RIAA HQ and have a couple hundred crazy porn deprived redskins storm the gates. I'm not sure the local police would see it as humorously as myself.

Looks like the RIAA is back to mimicking someone else's tatics.

~Tobe

Hence I described it as the "Bush era" rather than the "Bush administration", since it wasn't so much one of that administration's pet fields, but very symptomatic of the sort of thing that one of their pet interests might be able to slide through.