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Cornell Implementing Bandwidth Charges

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the information-wants-to-be-expensive dept.

Sabalon writes "Cornell University is planning on implementing a plan where if faculty, staff or students use more than 2GB of bandwidth a month, they will be charged for the additional bandwidth usage. The article mentions that last year over 100,000GB worth of files were sent from Cornell's network. I'm sure this is not the only school doing this or moving to this. I'm sure the conspiracy theory people will see this as a suggestion by Microsoft to stop students from getting those pesky Linux iso images. At least, according to the RIAA, CD sales around Cornell should now skyrocket :)" It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Since students often have accounts on several different university machines, I suspect the more rebellious ones will be running an assortment of proxies and redirections to get around the restrictions.

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  1. It is about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cornell is a bastion of limousine liberals, socialists, and outright commies. They think everything in life is free. They don't want to work for anything, just take from the sweat of others to satisfy their sloth. These fees will be a good object lesson in how the real world works.

  2. cornell is full of crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would know, I attend. They have always maintained that the bandwidth problems were caused by people _uploading_. So the question is, why penalize for downloads?

  3. What's it stifling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Somehow, I don't think the frontiers of computer science are being explored with Cornell's networks. More like lots of P2P porn and other frat-boy garbage. Besides, they're all rich kids, and their parents can afford it.