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But just as often, it seems, the pedagogic impulse trumps the legal imperative. So you get Mike Ryan, a professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, moderating an orientation seminar titled Napster: Theft or Civil Disobedience? which deals with the political economy of copyright policy, varying notions of ownership and the ethical implications of file-sharing technologies. Or the microeconomics class that Morris took as a freshman, in which students discussed the financial impacts of digital piracy. There was, he says, pretty much a consensus: We don't care. CDs are so expensive and we're so poorAmerican University officials instruct students to limit bandwidth use by changing their computer settings to only download files and not upload them. High-volume downloaders will be investigated and required to review the university's acceptable use policy, said university spokesman Todd Sedmak. Repeat violators might be kicked off the network permanently. The university is also considering sending first-time violators to what Sedmak called copyright school. It's not exactly the discouragement that the recording industry might find ideal. And that's just the beginning of a new approach that varies from the most academic to the most practical to the most contrived -- none of which, many students say, will make a bit of difference.
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