Ryan, can you find any information from your university about overall
bandwidth restrictions? For instance, I know PSU is horrendous about
this, banning students from the dorm networks if they exceed a certain
limit. I'm not a PSU student, but I think it's under 10GB a month. The
argument is that's obviously not surfing, that's filesharing, and
therefore illegal.
But this doesn't sound so much like a bandwidth issue (not that it is
at PSU, but they are presenting it that way) as it does a blatant and
misinformed attack on BT. Please keep us posted.
Elizabeth Stark wrote:
That does indeed sound frustrating. Have you considered
arguing that the free software BT clients don't contain spyware, and
that users can directly audit the code to confirm this?
Of course it's possible that you could download something containing
spyware with a BT client, but that is really no different than anywhere
else on the internet.
What are they threatening to do if you refuse to stop or at least
reduce your BT usage?
On Jan 16, 2008 6:39 PM, Ryan Prior < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I've
been the recipient of a few foreboding warnings from my university's
computing center, telling me that my BitTorrent usage is being noticed
by the school's network admins. I called the resident computing center
to ask them to stop sending me these emails, and the guy I talked to
delivered a message to me which he said that he is obligated to deliver
to everybody who calls in regarding these issues -- that you shouldn't
use BitTorrent, that BitTorrent clients all contain spyware, and that
for every 1 person who uses BitTorrent for a legitimate purpose, there
are 100 more who are using it illegally.
As somebody who takes advantage of distributed peer-to-peer services to
download freely licensed media, I am both proud to be among those who
use the technology for good and not evil and angry to hear that my
school network's policy is to spread lies about the nature of
BitTorrent. If someone on the list knows of a source where I can find
info about the ratio of legitimate traffic to illegal traffic on
BitTorrent, or which torrent clients spy on their users, will you
please share some links?
Thanks,
Ryan
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