I have a really good suggestion for you, allow private companies into the net, sell different kinds of connections i.e. 384kb/sec,1,10,100Mbit and let the students pay for what connection they want. I myself live in a school-owned campus, we are stuck with 10Mbit/sec and 15GB data cap per day, this frustrates many of the users, that in turn wants to move to private apartments for better internet access. A good working example is the student-dorms in Lund(south Sweden), where private ISP's were allowed into the network. Not only did the prices decrease marginally, the also bandwidth became cheaper. I dare you to post a poll, asking what bandwidth the students want and what they are prepared to pay for it.
University's are meant to encourage development and creation, not hinder it with limits and bounds.
As a student and actually fighting against the 15GB quota per day on my personal internet access, I thought myself lucky for a while and wrote Missouri U an email thanking them for being so infernally mad to implement such censorship.
"Hi,
My name is Antoine Nilsson and I live in Sweden (Europe, No, Sweden is not same country as Switzerland).
As you might know, Sweden has different copyright laws, including one that allows us to share our bought music. Therefore I wonder, if I send music that I have bought and ripped to my American friend who studies at Missouri U, does he break any copyright laws then?
Also, I wonder, how many in the school board got bribed and what sums did they get (just for statistics)?
I also thank you with all my heart for the fact that you accelerate the retardation of the American people with your internet censorship, so when the European Union stand on your border, the occupation of US will be swift and painless.
Sincerely yours,
Antoine
PS. We has polar bears (and you can't have them). DS.
PPS. This mail contains no bombs, anthrax or terror threats of any kind. DDS"
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I have a really good suggestion for you, allow private companies into the net, sell different kinds of connections i.e. 384kb/sec,1,10,100Mbit and let the students pay for what connection they want.
I myself live in a school-owned campus, we are stuck with 10Mbit/sec and 15GB data cap per day, this frustrates many of the users, that in turn wants to move to private apartments for better internet access.
A good working example is the student-dorms in Lund(south Sweden), where private ISP's were allowed into the network. Not only did the prices decrease marginally, the also bandwidth became cheaper.
I dare you to post a poll, asking what bandwidth the students want and what they are prepared to pay for it.
University's are meant to encourage development and creation, not hinder it with limits and bounds.
As a student and actually fighting against the 15GB quota per day on my personal internet access, I thought myself lucky for a while and wrote Missouri U an email thanking them for being so infernally mad to implement such censorship.
"Hi,
My name is Antoine Nilsson and I live in Sweden (Europe, No, Sweden is not same country as Switzerland).
As you might know, Sweden has different copyright laws, including one that allows us to share our bought music. Therefore I wonder, if I send music that I have bought and ripped to my American friend who studies at Missouri U, does he break any copyright laws then?
Also, I wonder, how many in the school board got bribed and what sums did they get (just for statistics)?
I also thank you with all my heart for the fact that you accelerate the retardation of the American people with your internet censorship, so when the European Union stand on your border, the occupation of US will be swift and painless.
Sincerely yours,
Antoine
PS. We has polar bears (and you can't have them). DS.
PPS. This mail contains no bombs, anthrax or terror threats of any kind. DDS"
link to the polar bear: http://www.yaoi.se/art/files/art/299.jpg