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MPAA Infiltrating Campus Nets with Software
unassimilatible writes "CNet is reporting that the MPAA is starting to infiltrate college campuses with automated anti-piracy software. Known as the Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS), the technology promises to make copyright enforcement easier on peer-to-peer networks, saving schools and Internet service providers (ISPs) time and money. ACNS allows them to automatically restrict or cut off Internet access for alleged infringers on notice from a record label or movie studio. Though not specifically ACNS, a similar system is set to go live Monday at the University of California at Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest universities with 37,500 students. UCLA's Copyright Policy page makes no reference of this system being implemented."
I'd like fries with my burger and coke, please... Any university student worth his salt will figure a war around this spyware. After all, that's what it really is, isn't it? p.s. I'll be putting on my aluminum foil hat soon.
Right. I mean, campus networks are for educational purposes, not for the mere entertainment of students. It is a little unfair to expect a university to pay to tripple their bandwidth to handle the movie and music swapping of students, which is against the law anyway. For the same reason, I'm guessing most university libraries still don't stock porn mags in the periodicals section.
Personally, I think dial up is fine for students. The whole time I was at a state university (95-97) we had to deal with a pool of 30 modems, some of which didn't work. The connection was so damned slow that browsing for porn would have been a lost cause. Students having broadband in their dorm rooms is a bit much. Their Internet access should match the quality of their accomodations and food they are fed.
Mod parent up as funny, not offtopic. If you don't get the humor, go to a library.
What a horrible troll. If you were being truthful and wanted to alleviate some of your work, you aught to give links to information on how to avoid being caught.
But, no, that'd be too much work..
I welcome our new 99% overlords.
Any suggestions as to how to "stay under the radar" Mr. Anonymous Smartass? Yes, it's easy to dish out your credentials and how long you've been P2Ping, but why not make a useful post and give some advice as to the best ways to avoid detection?
(it is included with your outragous dorm fees)
The local universities I am familiar with have dorms which piggyback off of pipes that supply bandwidth to the entire university. The dorms are not a stand-alone finanical entity, either. They aren't a privately owned apartment complex. And the truth is, state universities are subsidized by tax payers.
If kids want to be treated more like adults, they can get jobs, get a real apartment for $800 a month, pay their utilities, cook their own food, and pay the local telco $50 a month for DSL and do "whatever you damn well please with your net connection". Because otherwise, they are kids or at the very most, very young adults who are living on campus in a supervised environment and they have to realize that. When I lived in a dorm, I couldn't handle being treated like a kid and I couldn't handle the total lack of maturity around me, so I moved out. There is the real world, and there is campus and university life. It is important to know the difference.
Nice troll, though.
Was suprised to see there was people who agreed (at least somewhat) with my post since I got modded as a troll both times! Bwah. Must be a lot of pissy students with mod points today.