Aah, reminds me of my living in the dorms at college. A couple of years ago I attended the University of Oregon. Back then it was ranked one of the most wired campuses in the nation... Dual T-3 connections for the entire campus and dorms, each student had his own 10 Mbit ethernet jack in his dorm room, and you could actually utilize the full bandwidth! I loved serving up my IRC fserver full of anime on a nice fat pipe - uploaded approx. 150 GB/week of anime.
I will never forget the day my internet connection was shut off when they blocked my MAC address. Quick trip down to the "appropriate use" offices of the network admins office that day.
They asked me about my running a server in my room - since school policy didn't forbid it, I readily admitted I was hosting video files. The guy I was talking to then mentioned they had several calls from SONY and the MPAA about "someone running a server with video files," but I quickly added that they were not distributed in the US, and I hoped they weren't copyrighted here.
At that point the guy got really interested, and asked me what anime I had up on it and if I wanted to trade...school policy pretty much went out the window there.
But I got the "7th highest bandwidth user on campus award," nearly beating out the mail server! Aaah, I love the 500kBytes/sec days!
(you guys with your own personal T-3's and such can just stop laughing in the background)
Well, I'm from Oregon, and I just emailed Ron Wyden (democrat senator) my opinions regarding this...anyone else taking action, or just trolling about?
It's all fine and dandy to discuss subjects with your peers, but it unfortunately doesn't make much difference until you take that argument to the people who hold the golden keys.
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Aah, reminds me of my living in the dorms at college. A couple of years ago I attended the University of Oregon. Back then it was ranked one of the most wired campuses in the nation...
Dual T-3 connections for the entire campus and dorms, each student had his own 10 Mbit ethernet jack in his dorm room, and you could actually utilize the full bandwidth! I loved serving up my IRC fserver full of anime on a nice fat pipe - uploaded approx. 150 GB/week of anime.
I will never forget the day my internet connection was shut off when they blocked my MAC address. Quick trip down to the "appropriate use" offices of the network admins office that day.
They asked me about my running a server in my room - since school policy didn't forbid it, I readily admitted I was hosting video files. The guy I was talking to then mentioned they had several calls from SONY and the MPAA about "someone running a server with video files," but I quickly added that they were not distributed in the US, and I hoped they weren't copyrighted here.
At that point the guy got really interested, and asked me what anime I had up on it and if I wanted to trade...school policy pretty much went out the window there.
But I got the "7th highest bandwidth user on campus award," nearly beating out the mail server! Aaah, I love the 500kBytes/sec days!
(you guys with your own personal T-3's and such can just stop laughing in the background)
Well, I'm from Oregon, and I just emailed Ron Wyden (democrat senator) my opinions regarding this...anyone else taking action, or just trolling about?
It's all fine and dandy to discuss subjects with your peers, but it unfortunately doesn't make much difference until you take that argument to the people who hold the golden keys.