[FC-discuss] House passes COAA with p2p provisions intact

[Gavin Baker]

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Right, there are some provisions that should help control textbook
costs, etc. It's gotta be a fairly decent bill for the House to vote so
overwhelmingly for it. That's why it's so nefarious to stick something
like this in, too.

Fred Benenson wrote:
| The general feeling is that other sections of the bill are not as bad as
| the onedealing with "digital theft" -- That campuses notify and explain
| copyright infringement and so on.
|
| My understanding is that there are also other sections that deal with
| fair pricing of text books and so on.
|
| On Feb 10, 2008 2:30 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <me at acm.jhu.edu
| <mailto:me at acm.jhu.edu>> wrote:
|
|     Have any of you looked at the rest of this bill for what effects it
|     might contain, good or bad? The copy I have here is 747 (!!) pages...
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