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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. Uh oh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now all the students are going to need to learn how to run anonymous FTP servers and use FTP clients. We certainly wouldn't want to make supposedly tech-savvy students learn how to do something more difficult than double-click a few times.

  2. Yeah, good bye... by flamingdog · · Score: 4, Funny

    You think I'm paying to go to school so I can learn? I'm paying for 5 years of quick music, movies, and porn, damn it. Turn off my network access and I'm going to community college.

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  3. michael by six · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We want to alert you to the fact that many of you are risking complete loss of access to the USC computer system and both disciplinary and legal action," wrote USC dean of libraries Jerry Campbell and vice president of student affairs Michael Jackson in the e-mail.

    this could explain that ...