Posts Tagged with ‘minnesota’

Yesterday's big news in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was the walkout of students at Eden Prairie High School as a protest over the punishment of several students for activities discovered when administration was alerted to photos of students on Facebook “in possession of, or consuming, illegal substances,” according to the school's Principal Conn McCartan.
Forty-two students were questioned after school administrators saw the photos, and 13 of those students were punished under rules set out by the majority of Minnesota [...]

The morals involved with file sharing on the Web can most certainly conflict with one another. On the one hand we see consumers fighting for some measure of what majority of the population considers justice. On the other, there exists (in some instances) the significant exploitation of the concept of “free", which certainly does need addressing.
Unfortunately, at a time when the waters are still very, very murky, there are a select few bearing the brunt of digital copyright owners’ [...]