USC To Students: No Sharing Files 435
jukal writes: "copy-paste from a Wired article: 'Students at the University of Southern California could face a school year without computer access if they are busted swapping movies and music online. In an e-mail message to all students, school officials warned that using peer-to-peer file-trading services could force the university to kick students off the network. '"
This is nothing new (Score:4, Interesting)
Misleading article title (Score:4, Interesting)
Does this mean students can swap illegal software and media offline on CDs? I'd think it more efficient that way anyways. Who is with me?
heavy hand/closed mind (Score:2, Interesting)
Another Side (Score:2, Interesting)
1. no lawsuits, if it's an enforced policy than the specific violators can be prosecuted.
2.Less pay wasted on sending tech support to remove the multitude of viruses from kazaa downloads.
3.MORE BANDWIDTH to be used for legitimate uses.
Here's the thing: why should the university provide a way for people to trade copyrighted material?
University of Toronto (Score:1, Interesting)
However, last year, the limit was set at 500mb/week. For those who wanted to sample a linux or bsd distro, this did not make life any fun at all, as the download had to be resumed to finish it, in a period of two weeks.
Probably a bandwitch issue (Score:2, Interesting)
They won't officially tell us what they did to fix the problem but they sure didn't come out and say we couldn't use file trading programs. What it basically looks like is they selectively drop so many packets from the typical file sharing programs to lighten the load so that other types of packets have no trouble getting out. By dropping only the occassional packet they can let the connection stay alive and not interrupt the transfer but effectively slow it down and leave more burst bandwidth for other stuff.