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Solutions for University File Sharing?
bbulzibar asks: "Indiana University, like many other Universities, is struggling to deal with P2P file sharing. At a recent meeting, faculty, staff, and administration were convinced that 'the University is going to have to take some sort of action in the future [to eliminate illegal activity on the university's network].' With no student input, I can only imagine the worst happening (limiting data transfer, suing students, taking funds out of the student technology fee). What kind of a solution could be recommended by a proactive student in order to avoid an ugly 'solution' and loss of file sharing, yet reasonable enough that the University will accept it? IU has outlined 4 options at the meeting. Your thoughts?"
this sounds like a certain turtle-affiliated college on the east coast... rest assured that the students know about your tactics, and approve of them, but the packet shaping of bittorrent ports is really pissing off the anime community on your campus.
Think the Gutenburg project, of music.
When I think of that, all I can visualize is that it would consist of home-brew MIDI files, and only of music copyrighted before about 1925.
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