On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Charl Tintinger wrote: > Devil's advocate, lets face it, when they make a claim, its normally > correct. > > We all know that many people use Bit Torrent for generally illegal needs. I > doubt that they send out random 'your client has been naughty' without some > suitable evidence.
And particularly pertinent in academia just now, as the students arrive back. More significantly, the new students who have been running BitTorrent at home since forever, still have it running on their PCs and they get connected on wireless/halls of residence and off it goes ... So we've already started to get these coming in for this year. We identify or disable/quarantine the user, but we don't waste our time acknowledging the reports any more. Usually the student 'fesses up and we educate them and rarely is it an issue again for them. In most of the cases, the student (apparently) has absolutely no idea that what they are doing is illegal. This is particularly true of students from certain countries. It's just regular activity for them, the way they do things. We used to get lots, in recent years they have been relatively manageable in number. I put that down partly to easier legal means of obtaining material by streaming/downloading - it would seem they are actually willing to pay for reasonable ease of access, and it was the former inability of the content providers to be able to do so that was the real problem. As you might expext thought, there's a hardcode bunch though who just won't do it the legal way ... Jethro. > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Gavin Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Do they not provide even a simple amount of info such as offending IP > > > address and date/time? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, time/date/filename/port/ip/protocol > > > > Very detailed. > > > > -- > > Kind Regards, > > > > Gavin Henry. > > Managing Director. > > > > T +44 (0) 1224 279484 > > M +44 (0) 7930 323266 > > F +44 (0) 1224 824887 > > E [email protected] > > > > Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). > > > > http://www.suretecsystems.com/ > > > > Suretec Systems is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered > > number: SC258005. Registered office: 24 Cormack Park, Rothienorman, > > Inverurie, > > Aberdeenshire, AB51 8GL. > > > > Subject to disclaimer at http://www.suretecgroup.com/disclaimer.html > > > > Do you know we have our own VoIP provider called SureVoIP®? See > > http://www.surevoip.co.uk > > > > OpenPGP (GPG/PGP) Public Key: 0x8CFBA8E6 - Import from hkp:// > > subkeys.pgp.net > > or http://www.suretecgroup.com/0x8CFBA8E6.gpg > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks, Network Manager, Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263.
