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U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the warning-shots-fired-across-bow dept.

mk2mk2 writes "News.com has an article on how they're preparing to shut down P2P sharing of copyrighted content: 'For months, the digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming's network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or "Friends" episode.'" It's scary until one realizes that most P2P traffic isn't encrypted, like back when everyone still used telnet.

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  1. Quoth by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    "I don't really want to be looking that closely at what people are doing, and you'd probably just as soon not have me looking either," said Brad Thomas, a network specialist at the University of Wyoming who is helping manage the Audible Magic project. "But it's getting to be the only way to control our bandwidth."

    Oh, so it's about bandwidth now? Interesting. Yes, the RIAA, champion of bandwith-starved college kids everywhere.

  2. The real crime... by Sophrosyne · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is pretty rotten... who died and made some server admin at U of Wyoming God for $5.00/hour
    How are these people qualified to filter out what is legal and fair use?... isn't that what the court system is for? Yes people, I know it may take a while for the courts to work, but if you have a problem with copyrights, and fair-use you have to stay within the law and respect it... not go out like a bunch of cowboys and do whatever you feel is right
    There is a system set up in virtually all countries to deal with these types of things, and in the USA it is the court system whether some asshole at U of Wyoming likes it or not.

  3. Re:oh my! (girls) by ryanvm · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who owns the copyright on "Redhead Sticking a Cucumber up her Ass"

    I don't know about copyright, but I'll bet Unisys has it patented.