Online Quiz As a Gateway to P2P

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 15, 2008 @08:47AM from the put-the-burden-on-the-doer dept.

Andy Guess points out an interesting approach taken by a Missouri university to limiting (and limiting legal exposure because of) on-campus, on-line copyright violations, as described at Inside Higher Ed: "In order to download (or upload) files on any peer-to-peer network whatsoever, all on-campus users at Missouri S&T have to pass an online quiz on copyright infringement. But not just once. Passing the test — with a perfect score — enables peer-to-peer access for six hours on the user's on-campus registered machines."

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Don't be an anti-blind discriminazi by tepples · 2008-05-15 10:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Just require a capcha to download a file. Most CAPTCHAs that I have seen in the wild are implemented poorly in a manner that discriminates against blind and hard-of-sight users. Universities cannot require the use of such poorly-implemented CAPTCHAs or they will risk losing any state or federal funding that they receive.