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I suppose no one should be shocked that the state that calls “Music City” its capital would end having clashes between music fans and copyright owners. Now, a state bill seeks to get state-funded universities to do some of the dirty work. From ArsTechnica:

A new bill proposed in the Tennessee state senate aims to reduce copyright infringement at universities by forcing the schools to become antipiracy enforcers. If passed, the bill would require universities that receive funding from the state to analyze all traffic passing through their networks in order to track down and stop infringing activity. Under the proposed bill, universities could lose state funding if they refuse to implement network analysis systems or if they receive ten or more infringement complaints from content owners during a single year.

Given much of a higher-learnings tainted record of on-campus law enforcement, I frankly don’t trust them to handle it from either side of the copyright issue. However, playing CSI - IT isn’t the universities job and we shouldn’t be putting the schools’ funding at risk to make them play along.