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BitTorrent Inherently Illegal?
Nohbdy001 asks: "Today I received a letter from my university's network administration advising me that my network access would be terminated due to 'illegal P2P activity.' The P2P activity that the e-mail cited was BitTorrent and the file being transferred was an update to the Azureus BitTorrent client. The letter stated, 'Until the courts decide that student P2P activity is permitted we will continue to block this activity on our network,' implying that BitTorrent is inherently illegal. It seems such misunderstandings are common, but it is particularly frustrating when coming from people in the IT field. How can a student respond to such an accusation in order to defend the validity of BitTorrent and continue to benefit from its legitimate uses?"
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"Who's to say that the content you're accessing with a network tool - say, even a web browser - is appropriate?"
The people who own the place where you live, the network you're connecting to, and possibly even the computer itself.
Calling it censorship is ridiculous. Most universities and ISPs forbid you to run a web server off their connection. This has nothing to do with free speech, it's just good business practices. Trying to beg for sympathy for BitTorrent is getting old.
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I have been browsing your internet site for several hours and am generally impressed with your coverage of IT related issues. However when I saw an article on Bittorent I just had to voice my opinion.
I would just like to say how increadibly appalled I am with the Bittorrent computer software. Not only it allows distribution copyrighted material, but in doing so it inadvertently causes excessive use of bandwidth. Now you might say that this is fairly harmless, but is it really? The effects of electromagnetic radiation pollution caused by this cannot be underestimated. Just think of the millions of wired and wireless connections lighting up and emmiting those deadly electromagnetic rays and all the innocent men, women and children being exposed to them.
Every bittorent user has blood on his (or hers) hands.
This is all, thank you.