Welcome Back To College: Here is What Your School Will Do To You If You Fileshare
This post was published 2 years 2 months 18 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Ah, It’s September and the Coeds are filling the dorms – but this year besides students having to deal with their depressed schizophrenic emo pyromaniac roommate that loves watching people when they sleep, colleges are starting to crack down on the casual file sharer.
For Example:
If you go to UC Berkeley college students will now be booted off the network for a week if they’re accused of illegal file sharing.
The University of Tulsa students accused of file sharing will have to pay $250 in order to reactivate their network access. But don’t worry, Stanford students will only face a $100 charge.
The University of Kansas has adopted a one strike and you’re off the network policy.
Ohio University decided to play big brother.
Thats just a VERY small sample of colleges, but nationwide institutions of higher education are cracking down. So be aware the next time you are tempted to download Beyonce’s single that you may be safe from the RIAA but not from your IT director.
How has your school cracked down? Let us know in the comments.
Aww poop. They told me it was a simple warning not to do it again if you got caught by the industry. I guess that means I’ll have to spoof the mac address and connect from another dorm’s wifi for any downloads that could be mistaken for illicit use, won’t I?
I know a simple fix, live off-campus!!
Cal State San Marcos has virtually blocked ALL p2p activity on their network…it was a bitch finding a way around it.
I don’t use P2P all to often, but I have used it to get Fedora 7 stuff before.
But my (nameless) school has told us how to turn off filesharing, so we don’t get caught.
Texas A&M actually allows you to connect and share within any computer in the school network. They figure if you do it within the school network sharing legally purchased or music that’s already stored on your computer, you won’t download it illegally. they got like two t1 lines wrapped together or something like that, as well.