Kansas University is getting a lot of press for its decision to crack down on music pirating on campus.A story on InsideHigherEd.com about new downloading regulations that may be attached to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act mentions KU’s crackdown.The university has instituted a zero-tolerance policy for illegal downloading and will deactivate ResNet Network access in university housing if KU receives notice of a copyright violation and an appeal is denied._ (Mark) Luker (vice president of Educause) … objected to the way the legislation makes colleges uniquely responsible for the problem when file sharing starts in middle school these days and doesn’t end with college graduation. “Colleges have been working very hard on this issue,” he said, trying to teach their students about copyright law, adding services that provide free or low cost music downloads, and adding new rules all the time to discourage illegal file sharing. The University of Kansas, for example, has just toughened punishments for those who use campus networks in violation of downloading bans._Several techno-blogs also are discussing the new rules. Those include Ars Technica, where Eric Bangeman writes that the policy is “one of the most stringent we have seen.”