News Comments – RIAA vs P2P Filesharing at Universities
Looks like the RIAA’s various plans in curbing P2P filesharing with free or very cheap, but DRM-ed alternatives isn’t working out so great…. Especially in the schools where the free or ultra-dirt cheap music expires at or around graduation and you music hoard is inaccessible junk unless you know how to crack it.
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Old News – The RIAA and Internet2. I would of loved file sharing on Internet2, especially since could bridge onto regular file sharing on the open internet (by runing I2Hub and Emule simultaneously using common incomplete/incoming/permashare folders).
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This will probably reduce the bureaucracy of the university IS department but it won’t stop file sharing. University of California @ berkely has their residence halls on a dedicated internet connection and internal network. But they have problems with people using file sharing in the computer labs!!! I was only marginally aware of kazaa until SETI@Home’s admin leaked to me their kazaa abuse problems when I was helping brainstorm about their connection problems long ago. SETI@Home has their own internet connection now. Kazaa didn’t work out well for me, but it was a decent source of GBC GBA ROMs (after GBA-Extreme went down), but I couldn’t mass-hoad like I could froma GBA-Extreme or a leaked FTP distro where I got a huge amount of NES and SNES ROMs from. Now with Emule it has all changed. It is Napster+++++++ and it ain’t just for music.
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I would have fallen for this. They probably also don’t have escalating punishment for repeat offensives. I don’t have much pride when it conflicts with greed so i would sign wrongdoing forms and reprimands. Only problem is that these forms are more than just demerital reprimands on your student records that employers for jobs that don’t require US security clearences hardly ever look up, it gets sent directly to the core of the RIAA… Even if you were leechin warez, bookz, or moviez instead. Even despite that I wouldn’t care unless it makes it more likely that the RIAA sues me. But even then, unlike other colledge kids, neither I or my primary parent (divorced) had any collectable assets beyond garnishment of low-income wages at the time.
