I agree with you, but I feel that for liability reasons that a time limit should be set. I think that a hacker should be protected from prosecution if he alerts the company to a security flaw and no action has been taken in 2 weeks.
I do tech support at the University of Pittsburgh and Besides the bandwidth suckage of p2p there is another problem. The Riaa has been hassling the university tirelessly about file sharing. It seems that alot of computers on campus were getting hacked and many of them were serving Warcraft 3. We were contacted and threatened with fines and all sorts of legal crap. The university is now instituting a similar ban to the one that we are discussing here and it is important. There are a few advantages that a university cannot pass up. 1. no lawsuits, if it's an enforced policy than the specific violators can be prosecuted. 2.Less pay wasted on sending tech support to remove the multitude of viruses from kazaa downloads. 3.MORE BANDWIDTH to be used for legitimate uses.
Here's the thing: why should the university provide a way for people to trade copyrighted material?
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I agree with you, but I feel that for liability reasons that a time limit should be set. I think that a hacker should be protected from prosecution if he alerts the company to a security flaw and no action has been taken in 2 weeks.
I do tech support at the University of Pittsburgh and Besides the bandwidth suckage of p2p there is another problem. The Riaa has been hassling the university tirelessly about file sharing. It seems that alot of computers on campus were getting hacked and many of them were serving Warcraft 3. We were contacted and threatened with fines and all sorts of legal crap. The university is now instituting a similar ban to the one that we are discussing here and it is important. There are a few advantages that a university cannot pass up.
1. no lawsuits, if it's an enforced policy than the specific violators can be prosecuted.
2.Less pay wasted on sending tech support to remove the multitude of viruses from kazaa downloads.
3.MORE BANDWIDTH to be used for legitimate uses.
Here's the thing: why should the university provide a way for people to trade copyrighted material?