As a Network Admin for Concordia University, we have also taken the same approach of blocking P2P traffic using an appliance called CopySense from Audible Magic Corporation. Our philosophy for the blocking is a bit different than trying to avoid RIAA. We simply cannot afford the bandwidth hog that P2P is on our campus. CopySense allows us to open certain types of downloads based on keywords. So, we allow people to use P2P to download legitimate files like Linux distributions etc, but everything else is blocked. For us it's not about Internet freedom, but the cost of supporting the constant bandwidth strain that P2P causes. Before CopySense, P2P was killing our ability to do legitimate academic work on the Internet.
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As a Network Admin for Concordia University, we have also taken the same approach of blocking P2P traffic using an appliance called CopySense from Audible Magic Corporation. Our philosophy for the blocking is a bit different than trying to avoid RIAA. We simply cannot afford the bandwidth hog that P2P is on our campus. CopySense allows us to open certain types of downloads based on keywords. So, we allow people to use P2P to download legitimate files like Linux distributions etc, but everything else is blocked. For us it's not about Internet freedom, but the cost of supporting the constant bandwidth strain that P2P causes. Before CopySense, P2P was killing our ability to do legitimate academic work on the Internet.