Comments on: New Uni of Florida anti-p2p app

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:19:49 +0000

Put news like this in kids’ P2P applications so the app shows a popup. That way they CAN’T miss it and know what universities to avoid.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:57:37 +0000

These offenders should be named and shamed in a list of the worst universities. It should be made publicly available to all students and highly visible.

Once students start ignoring universities that flagrantly disregard their privacy rights and/or work with the RIAA/MPAA, they will soon come around.

It is time to institute boycotts against them…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:12:14 +0000

“- Just what we need robot police supplied by the *AA’s. ”

police, judge and jury as a matter of fact…. guilty until proven otherwise. And the *AA’s won’t let that happen, they will bury you in court

Summary of SOP seems to be:

Pay us cause it’ll cost you way more to fight.

Since you didnt pay us we’ll keep this in court until you run out of cash. Then when you cannot afford a lawyer. Then we will win by default.

And on the off chance they cannot outlast someone or some one comes up with something that shows they were not ‘guilty’ they drop the case and fight having to pay for the others legal cost.
The ‘ well if you didn’t look like you fall into the demographic that would just roll over and pay us we’d never have sued you, so it’s your fault anyway’ part of the case.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:02:48 +0000

‘The so-called Integrity application tracks data transfers between computers, “searching for code patterns that indicate users are illegally transferring material,” ‘

- so does this mean they ‘fingerprinting’ or just searching for patterns, ie a user recieving lots of packets from differnet users?

If it’s fingerprinting then wouldn’t using encryption ‘fix’ this?

If its the other than that also could be a user recieving legitamite files over p2p, or using a some form of web bot used to retrieve information (rss feeds for example) from many sources.

“Once located, the program automatically tells students they’ve been caught. Depending on the school, this can lead to a range of punishments, such as a temporary ban from the system.”

- Just what we need robot police supplied by the *AA’s.

-Gues it can’t be the second or their would be too many false positives and the university could have quite a few legal battles on it’as hands.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:34:57 +0000

Ever heard of an intrusion detection system? Analyzing packet content has been a widely accepted practice in the security field for about 15 years.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:00:23 +0000

its for the good of the MAFIAA!
Who cares about tiny details like “is this even legal?”!
Remember NSAT&T, so why do you even dare to ask if it is just in such a tiny closed environment like a campus wide LAN.

I’m sure the university guys have some nice papers the students sign automaticly at the beginning of a schoolyear where those concerns like privacy and anonymous non-monitored comunication by the students is waived.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:33:58 +0000

Would someone care to explain how this is even legal?