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Can Anyone Police File Sharing? (Inside Higher Ed)

Campus file sharing briefly hit prominence in Congress last week as colleges lobbied against a proposed amendment in the Senate to the Higher Education Act reauthorization that would have required universities to use â??technology-basedâ? systems to try to block illegal downloading activity. While the amendment was withdrawn, it may be revived in the House â?? and certainly the entertainment industry has no intention of letting the issue go away.