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Ohio University Blocks P2P File Sharing
After receiving the highest number of notices from the RIAA about P2P file sharing, Ohio University has announced a policy that restricts all fire sharing on the campus network. Some file-sharing programs that could trigger action are Ares, Azureus, BitTorrent, BitLord, KaZaA, LimeWire, Shareaza and uTorrent. Claiming that this effort is 'to ensure that every student, faculty member and researcher has access to the computer resources they need,' is this another nail in the coffin of internet freedom in American universities or a needed step to prevent illegal fire sharing?
Students are now paying fairly big bucks and the universities have been bought by corporations to be research arms for much cheaper than the corporations would have to pay for the research if they were paying market rates for all the work done by students.
The average grad student probably defers a couple hundred thousand dollars in income and works basically "for free".
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.