University of Utah Promises DMCA Crackdown

Milo Fungus writes "The University of Utah announced yesterday to all students, faculty, and staff that "the University will disable network access for any machine for which a DMCA complaint has been received" from the MPAA, RIAA, or member of the software industry. The full text of the memorandum can be found here. (Please be easy on the server and set up a mirror if you can.)"

Comments

$1

[elmegil]

to the first person to forge an email and get someone taken off the network for something they didn't actually do.

Re:$1

[Lazarus Short]

[$1] to the first person to forge an email and get someone taken off the network for something they didn't actually do.

$2 if you make the victim the boss of the person responsible for the memo.

Re:$1

[djcapelis]

$2 if you make the victim the boss of the person responsible for the memo. Oh come on! Go for the memo writer himself, and send the letter to his boss!

Re:$1

[91degrees]

Do I get the $1 if I get an essential computer taken offline (e.g. University webserver)?

Re:$1

[0x0d0a]

I think the proper course of action is to find a hole in the webserver, plop an actual P2P server on it, and then send lots of bogus complaints about workstations in.

Let the games begin...

[clambake]

for (IPAddress i=UTAH_LOWEST_IP; i UTAH_HIGHEST_IP;i++) {

sendMail("We found a DMCA violation on this IP:",i);

}

It's such a bad thing to make policies where descions are arbitratily made before evidence is collected.

How hard would it be to spoof an IP

[mhesseltine]

Say of the school admin, Dean's office, etc. and send packets on a port commonly used by P2P?

Also, is there a reward for turning someone in on this violation? Sounds like a money maker for some poor geek who happens to be able to fake traffic.