Boston College Says Using WiFi Is a Sign of Infringement

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 31, 2011 @12:05AM from the get-your-cords-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Boston College has a funny idea of what constitutes copyright infringement. It has a list of what might be called 'you might be a copyright infringer if...' with the sort of things you might expect, such as using file sharing programs or sending mp3s to friends. But some have noticed something odd. Included on the list is using a wireless router in your dorm. Yes, just using a wireless router. Not using it for anything. But just using such a router is considered a sign of infringement. Nice to see our top colleges and universities teaching students completely made up things."

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Re:Ridiculous Reporting by LordLimecat · 2011-03-31 02:41 · Score: -1, Troll

Oh for goodness sake using wifi internet has nothing to do with free speech-- and anonymity doesnt require public wifi.
The internet is basically all private entities; you do realize that the first amendment holds precious little sway there, when blogspot or blogger or facebook can just say "you cant post that" and you have essentially no recourse, right? And good luck hosting your own server on the library's free public wifi...