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Rosen, Valenti Warn Colleges About P2P

Posted by timothy on from the oh-and-have-you-met-our-lawyer dept.

fini writes "The RIAA and MPAA just sent a letter to 2,300 colleges or so, asking to crack down on P2P. Juicy nugget: 'Not only is piracy of copyrighted works illegal, it can take up a significant percentage of a university's costly bandwidth.' Also mentioned, some quasi-FUD on security issues. Six higher-ed honchos also sent a concurring letter. From the RIAA website, here's the story and the letters (PDF only). Mentioned as examples of model policies: Drake University, UNC Chapel Hill and University of Michigan . Interestingly enough, there is no threatening 'or else' stuff in those letters. Not yet..."

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  1. First Post... by MattCohn.com · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...need I say... w00t?

  2. Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these

  3. NMT http://www.nmt.edu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    my school is already killing EVERYTHING. I can't game, I can't kazaa, I can't IRC, I can't telnet from off-campus, I can't send files via icq or the like, I can't serve any type of content. My logs are jam packed with my school randomly opening ports and trying to log into my computer to make sure I wasn't running a server on that port.

    Many of my requests to web pages time out when they start the port scanning. I can ping anywhere on the west half of the us under 100ms, but I can't do any type of transfer whether browsing or downloading updates with a ping below 400. This scanning jacks our ping way up and applications that work on time-out just don't work anymore. I just time out of them. Good job fellas, keep up the good work.

    NMT is in a small town and the internet and the gym is all we have. We're geeks. We can only browse the web at slow speedds. People are either going to start killing themselves or really take a stnad here. So, a message: People will revolt over stuff like this

  4. Re:Perfect People To Tell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know about you, but I would rather keep my money than see it given to crackheads and single moms who have 9 kids in order to collect more from Uncle Sam. Fuck the gutter scum. Fuck welfare. Fuck you.

  5. Re:Perfect People To Tell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your high school sucked.

  6. Dear RIAA, by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 1, Troll
    Dear RIAA(TM),

    Fuck you very much for your illegal suppresion of free thought and information. Believe it or not, there is a WORLD of "cool stuff" that is not under copyright, and is available on P2P systems.

    There is more to life than the cunt Britney Spears(TM) you push into peoples eardrums.

    I'm drinking water every day, 8 glasses full, because one day far far away I'm going to take a really long piss on someone's grave. Care to take a guess whose?

    Regards,

    World