4. "The state mandates technology proficiency for all high school students but adds no money to schools' software budgets. To ensure equity, public schools are allowed to buy what software they can afford and copy the rest.
False. Some interpretations of the 11th Amendment of the Constitution suggest that state schools may in fact be exempt from copyright prosecutions. However, following the guidelines encourages software and hardware makers to keep making quality products for us to buy."
This angers me because why do schools think that they have the right to copy software just because they don't have the money? It's kind of like a poor person saying, "Well, I would pay for my food if I had the money, but since I am poor and have no money, then I guess I will just steal the food." That does not make sense. If anything, the school who is copying software should get into trouble. A good school that runs out of money for software should apply for a grant. Students can get into so much money for illegally downloading music, but if a school copies something illegally, do they get into trouble or do they just get a slap on the hand? I feel like copying software for a school system is so much worse because so many other people will use it and a student who illegally downloads music will just keep the musical for himself/herself, which really isn't a big deal.
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