

Plan would have students pay flat fee for unlimited access to P2P







  • Avoid DMCA issues and lawsuits.
  • Avoid technological regulations that might hinder university networks.
  • Provide “fair” returns for copyright holders.




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RE: I don't get this...
By Darkefire on 12/8/2008 3:11:53 PM , Rating: 2
I went to a smaller private school that blocked all P2P programs, including even IRC and Usenet. Mind you, they were running on a backbone that couldn't even handle the midday load of everyone's AIM traffic. P2P is incredibly intensive on a campus's upload, especially if any significant percentage of the student body is leaving on torrents constantly, and it's easier for them to simply block the lot of it and distribute things internally. Our IT department, although full of Mac-philes who couldn't fix a Windows problem if their life depended on it, were all perfectly happy to hook you up with a Linux distro or other largish piece of software if you gave them a couple days' notice.

I put up with it for two years before moving off campus into my fraternity house, with its own cable internet. But right before I did, I discovered the joys of Rapidshare; completely unblockable by the university, and although a 12mb pipe spread across 1300 students isn't much to speak of during the day it's incredibly fast when they're all asleep at 2 in the morning.


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