p2pnet - rss feed: DC ++ stymies RIAA at Ohio U
p2pnet.net news:- Residencies in Ohio University’s East Green were built in the 1940s and 50’s and are all “traditional-style” halls with, “shared community bathrooms,” says the online description.
But bathrooms aren’t all that’s shared.
Following out-of-control attacks by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), OU banned file sharing on the campus.
That doesn’t mean, however, that file sharing has stopped. In fact, it’s going full blast via a secret intranet run from East Green, says a surprising item in the school’s The Post Online.
There, “a university-provided computer allows students to swap movies, music, software, pornography and an eclectic mix of other files that include military training manuals and fliers promoting file-sharing,” reveals the story.
When the owner installed the ‘hub’ program late last month, “he took over the DC++ file-sharing network from a male senior who decided he couldn’t take the risk any longer,” it says, going on to quote the “male senior” as saying:
“I think it’d be better if no one really knows how the hub was run,” said the male senior. “I would hate to see (the university) single out the owner of the hub and make an example of them.”
Because files are shared within the OU network, “sharers get higher transfer speeds than peer-to-peer networks that extend outside the university,” says The Post. “This also protects DC++ users from copyright enforcement companies hired by the movie and music industries.”
How come? RIAA copyright cops can’t penetrate OU’s DC++ hub. And that, of course, means they’ll eventually have to get staff to do their dirty work for them.
Says the story:
Both students asked not to be identified, fearful of punishment from the university — which has announced its intention to break up file-sharing groups that operate within its network but has not set a date. Malcolm Smith, director of University Judiciaries, said that running a file-sharing server is more seriously considered than other forms of file-sharing because of its clear intent.
Although the DC++ Facebook group lists more than 80 members, the most users ever on the network at one time was close to 60, said the hub’s most recent operator. The average is between 20 and 30.
Users have to share files totaling at least 128 megabytes, and, “Normally between 1.4 and 1.7 terabytes are shared on DC++, but the largest amount of files shared on the network at once was 2.98 terabytes - the storage capacity of about 76 of the newest residence hall computers.”
Intranet file sharers aren’t subject to the new university policy, “because only peer-to-peer traffic entering and leaving the university network is monitored,” says The Post, adding ominously, “for now”.
DC++ is an open source client for Windows for the Direct Connect network which, “allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits,” says the site, adding:
The client is completely free of advertisements and has a nice, easy to use interface. Firewall and router support is integrated and it is easy and convenient to use functionality like multi-hub connections, auto-connections and resuming of downloads.
DC++ is a highly ranked piece of software among the projects hosted at Sourceforge. With over thirty five million downloads, new users continue to find benefits from the software every day.
Definitely stay tuned.
Also See:
out-of-control attacks - An Anthropologist Explores the Culture of Video Blogging, April 26, 2007
The Post Online - East Green home to file-sharing hub, May 7, 2007
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May 8th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Faster than Internet2.
May 8th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/paramount-shuts-down-iesb.php
May 8th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Now that this has hit the internet it is no longer a secret. As such we all know that spies for the cartels are watchful here as well as elsewhere. Since it can’t be seen on the internet to be spied on someone will be showing up either in person or by legal proxy to check this out.
Since someone has decided to let the cat out of the bag, another will pay the price of that lack of concern.
I am to the point of realizing our copyright system is in sad need of overall as well as our patent system. Both have swung far to far towards protectionism without regard to the publics’ right of public domain and fair use. Fair use has all but been laid to rest in the grave. Nothing you or I hear in our lifetimes from now on will ever reach that public domain and that is the sole purpose of copyright protection.
Florida is in the news this week as effectively laying to rest the right of first sale on cds. By requiring the store owner to hold any used cds for 30 days before selling, requiring id checks to the point of being similar to the sort of checks required to purchase guns, requiring the store owner to post bond for the ability to sell used cds, and by not allowing a cash return to the customer on the sale of those used cds. They can only get store credit after going through all the above. This means that it won’t be worth it to sell used cds and it will effectively kill first sale in the state. The cartels have again gotten their way with some dirty dealing with state law makers, the same as with federal lawmakers and it is a sad state of affairs.