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USC To Students: No Sharing Files

Posted by timothy on from the and-you-were-expecting-what-exactly dept.

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. '"

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  1. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    File sharing is a form of stealing which is destroying our economy. The damage it does is comparable to terrorism.

  2. Re:Good by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    but it doesn't matter

    YES, it EXACTLY does matter. Automobiles are not used 99.999% for illegitimate purposes. It is legitimate to ban P2P because there are alternatives (e.g., FTP) for legitimate trading. There basically is zero downside to banning P2P programs.

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  3. today by GoatPigSheep · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I downloaded unreal tournament 2003 demo off of kazaa (using kazaa lite). I wouldn't have been able to get it off any of the commercial servers as there is alot of traffic on them from eager unreal fans. P2P really is the future for downloading large files, it's to bad USC is trying to keep its students back in the stone age.

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