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music over peer-to-peer
Internet services became popu
lar, compels Internet providers
to turn over the names of sus
pected pirates upon subpoena
from any U.S. District Court
clerk’s office. A judge’s signa
ture is not required. Critics con
tend judges ought to be more
directly involved.
The appeals court must
decide whether Bates correctly
ruled against Verizon earlier this
year. The same appeals court
previously declined to put
Bates’ decision on hold pending
the appeal, forcing Verizon to
hand over the names of its tar
geted subscribers.
“We look forward to the
court of appeals’ affirmation of
those well reasoned decisions,”
said R1AA President Cary
Sherman, whose handheld digi
tal recorder was quietly confis
cated by courthouse security
before the hearing. Recording
devices aren’t permitted in fed
eral courtrooms.
Verizon had argued unsuc
cessfully that Internet providers
should only be compelled to
respond to such subpoenas when
pirated music is stored on com
puters that providers directly
control, such as a Web site,
rather than on a subscriber’s per
sonal computer.
Senior Judge Stephen F.
Williams told Verrilli that per
mitting subpoenas in these cases
“makes a lot of sense from a
policy standpoint,” but ques
tioned whether they were per
mitted under some interpreta
tions of the law.
In his ruling, Bates wrote
that Verizon’s interpretation
“makes little sense from a poli
cy standpoint,” and warned that
it “would create a huge loop
hole in Congress’ effort to pre
vent copyright infringement on
the Internet.”
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-
Kan., has introduced a bill to
protect Internet providers from
such subpoenas. His proposal
would block subpoenas except
in pending civil lawsuits or in
cases where pirated data Tiles
were stored on easily accessible
locations, such as Web sites.
Still, a courtroom challenge
may be Verizon’s best hope.
Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,
said last week that it was too
early to consider changing the
1998 law. He asked lawyers on
all sides and consumers to report
to his office about their experi
ences with these subpoenas over
the next six months.
Loans
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says you can borrow ‘X’ amount of dollars does
n’t mean you have to take those dollars,”
Mowdy said.
Using statistics from schools and lenders, the
Education Department’s default rate is based on
the number of students who go 270 days without
making a payment during their first year of repay
ing a student loan.
In 2001, 5.7 million students obtained $39.7
billion in federally backed loans.
A Cambridge Consumer Credit Index survey
issued earlier this month found that outstanding
college debt hampered the ability of 68 percent of
graduates with student loans to make major pur
chases like homes or automobiles.
Jordan Goodman, a spokesman for the index,
said 22 percent of all Americans now carry student
loan debt, up from 18 percent from last year.
And a poll conducted by Harris Interactive for
Collegiate Funding Services — an education
finance and debt management corporation —
revealed that 55 percent of college graduates are
having problems meeting their financial goals
because of student loan debt.
An adjustment of career plans is one way some
graduates are coping with the crunch.
“My budget is tight, very tight,” said Jill
Deutscher, a Chicago high school teacher who
said loan debt played a role in her decision to
work summers and accept a higher-paying posi
tion in an urban school district, as opposed to less
er salary in a small town school system.
But while a $128-per-month consolidated loan
payment cuts heavily into her living expenses,
Deutscher — a 2002 graduate of Illinois State
University — said the $17,000 she’ll repay over
10 years is worth every penny.
“Without my education, I never would have
been able to do what I do,” she said.
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schools,” Dale Ganus, asso
ciate director for the office of
admissions at Texas Tecii
said the university had no!
yet decided on altering its
admissions policies.
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as Democrats and Republics
appeared together on the Senas
floor for the first time ini
month and a half.
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showing of good faith on even
senator’s part,” Harris saidafe
the Senate met briefly.
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disagreeable.”
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from the rhetoric that flew across
the state borders while
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over GOP attempts to redraw!
state’s congressional districts.
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statewide-elected post in Tkm
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representation in the state’s con
gressional delegation, whidi
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tricts should stand and say plait
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