On Wed, 04 May 2011 18:21:00 -0400, Atom Powers <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I'm sure many of you are aware, there is a relatively new Higher > Education Opportunity Act requirement that schools must "document and > implement plans to combat the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted > material". > > I am having trouble finding ways to satisfy this requirement without > putting an undue burden on legitimate activities. So I'm hoping to get > some advice from others on what they have done to satisfy this > requirement, specifically "technology-based deterrents" and "reviewing > the effectiveness of the plans". Educause has some nice information on this: http://www.educause.edu/node/645/tid/34600?time=1304902426 At my very-recently-ex University, our ResTek group had been using bandwidth-shaping for quite some time to allow non-infringing uses to actually be used. They chose to not outright block bittorrent because there are non-infringing uses of it, especially on a campus that has a Computer Science curriculum. I don't know if they've done anything specific to block things like Dropbox. We also take DMCA notices we receive very seriously. Since we're higher-ed and have public IP addresses for most uses, it's pretty simple to track an IP address and a date-time stamp to a single device. We have well groomed disciplinary policies for just this. Again, IIRC, our ResTek group has one person who has handling DMCA notices as a full time job. On the campus side we have one person who gets them, but it was probably only 20% of his job (mainly for users being bad on our wireless network). IIRC, students are reminded about the copyright policy every time they change thier passwords, which is more often than once a year. -- Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
