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USC To Students: No Sharing Files
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. '"
I'm sick and fucking tired of the retards who run P2P filesharing software on my University's network. Thanks to them, during the first and last two weeks of each semester, I see my bandwidth get killed (which I use for legitimate purposes, downloading source tarballs, ISOs of Linux distributions, and so forth). Everytime I see some moron running KaZaA, It is all I can do to avoid purchasing a lethal weapon and killing them.
Good thing the students are learning in a university that when a means of sharing ideas can be used for ill that it must be stopped entirely. We wouldn't want them distributing their own thoughts. It's best to squash free thought while it's still budding.
Kind of like banning guns, really.
Which of course the entire civilised world outside of America agrees with...
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What sucks is when you attend a medium size school that just follow the trendsetters of the big name schools. Incoming stupid regulations on things beyond their control.
USC receives much of its financing, especially its prestigious Film School, there can be no doubt that this was financially motivated on USC's part becuase of political pressure from the MPAA. This new rule is not a coincidence, not that the ruling is not economically sensible in some regards.
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stop with the flamebait. Universities were one of the last bastions of real internet providing (i.e. you're a peer, not a client) till all this crap started. I say screw the RIAA...the Constitution grants certain copyright exemptions to educational institutions, and these should not be infringed. This doesn't mean that all educational use is free use, but it does mean that the free exchange of information should not be infringed of those in educational institutions. Therefore, a student should be free to pass the fruits of their labors over the college network for the benefit of other students as well as other people who desire access to it, especially if they are in a music program and want comments and criticism. So before you go and bitch about "the real world" keep in mind that even the framers of the constitution believed in the free access of information, especially for those in higher learning.
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
Careful there and use the proper english, not slang please. Most USians dont understand the term wanker, well thats according to Phil Collins when talking about his cameo roles on Miami Vice.
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