Colleges have been asserting for months â?? in an effort to persuade Congress not to impose new requirements on them to fight illegal file sharing â?? that theyâ??re spending big bucks to monitor, prevent and discipline online behavior that could run afoul of copyright law. But lawmakers ignored their pleas and added several new mandates to the Higher Education Act in August.
Now that itâ??s been a few months, and the dust has settled, it seems fair to ask: What does it cost to comply with the provisions of the law that require colleges to police their studentsâ?? peer-to-peer activity?