[tor-relays-universities] (FWD) Higher education act

[Leonid Reyzin]

This issue didn't come up at all for us.
On Mar 12, 2013 6:12 PM, "Roger Dingledine" <arma at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi Wendy,
>
> I was in a meeting today wherein Tom Ristenpart explained to the
> University of Wisconsin network people why he needed to run an exit
> relay to support his research.
>
> One of the concerns they raised was whether a Tor exit would endanger
> their agreements with the copyright mafia, per the new 2008 law where
> universities agree to enforce the copyright mafia's goals in exchange
> for federal funding.
>
> Do you know any details here? My guess is it's another case of "they
> say you have to have a policy, but they don't say the policy has to do
> anything". That said, I noticed the word 'effectively' in it.
>
> I'm cc'ing some existing exit relay operators in case they've encountered
> this issue (or if they haven't but I have just worried them ;)
>
> --Roger
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Ristenpart <rist at cs.wisc.edu> -----
>
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:07:05 -0500
> From: Thomas Ristenpart <rist at cs.wisc.edu>
> To: Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>
> Subject: Higher education act
>
> http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EPO0938.pdf
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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