Swedish download ban
p2pnet.net News:- More than 100 students at a university in southern Sweden have been banned from using the school’s computer network after pressure from American media companies, says The Local.
“Niclas Cronsioe, IT manager at the university, told The Local that most of the students were banned in 2004 and 2005,” says the story. “They had been downloading copyrighted material without permission in their apartments on the university campus. Only six students have been banned during 2006.”
Växjö doesn’t have a policy to, “actively hunt down” students alleged to have been file sharing, “but when we get a letter or an email from an American film company we take action,” Cronsioe is quoted as saying, adding:
“Students who are banned from accessing the network from their rooms are still allowed to use the university’s public computers, so their studies do not suffer”.
None of the banned students had complained, he said.
Also See:
The Local – Students get network ban over file sharing, October 30, 2006
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