Dear Mr. Frank R. Wolf,
My name is Rebecca Grau and I am a concerned College Student at George Mason University. I am writing to propose that you and your colleagues reexamine bill H.R. 4137. Passing this bill will only end in a devastating outcome for all involved. If a college does not comply with the ban of file sharing and government funding is taken away from schools, we will essentially be segregating colleges and universities into children of wealthy parents or planning for very poor graduates drowning in debt. For schools that choose to comply with the file sharing ban i feel we are going to be restricting the learning opportunities of those to follow. As a future teacher of America i am concerned for the teachers that will follow. If funding is cut for the schools or schools need to spend a massive amount of money controlling peer-to-peer file sharing the focus of their spending will turn away from the actual education of the students to all of the politics and legislation laws they need to abide by. There is no possible way to trace these file sharing transactions and i feel that this bill will bring great controversy to the college and take the real focus off of learning.
Thank you for hearing my concerns and i hope you will take this seriously into consideration in the very near future.
Sincerely,
Becky Grau