Crapster at Emory University
p2pnet.net News:- Emory University is 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta and is, “home to nine major academic divisions, numerous centers for advanced study, and a host of prestigious affiliated institutions”.
It has 11,300 students, 2,500 faculty members – and a serious Napster II infestation.
Below is a Reader’s Write inspired by yesterday’s story on the way US schools are becoming adjuncts to the entertainment industry.
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My school (EMORY) has, after only 9 subpoenas in the summer, instituted a firewall reminiscent of communist China.
The worst part was the complete lack of official announcement, because they knew how many people would quickly bail out of their housing contracts rather than put up with it.
It blocks legitimate bit torrent traffic from places like p2p congress (am am very heavily into politics), among other more grey but also arguably fair use activities on p2p networks.
They have backed this action by lying through their teeth, saying the blaster worms were coming in through p2p rather than their actual entry through windows security holes.
Finally, after hammering for a whole semester, I got someone in management to admit the truth, but that still hasn’t changed things here.
The students are up in arms, but because of the ranking of the school, there is no effective threat which could force their hand, as there are always 10 waiting for each spot which would be vacated..
The director of “legal compliance”, also known by the position “local RIAA sellout”, is talking about forcing us to pay for “legal services” in our tuition!.
I’m a mac user, and 8 of every 10 players here are ipods. the Crapster offered to campus residents in other cases has expired upon graduation, meaning loss of all the music you pay for, or perpetual pay per use forever. Additionally, it lacks the “privilege” to burn to cd.. (otherwise known as FAIR USE).
Crapster wma files dont work on ipod or mac.. I’d be forced to pay for music which not only do i not agree with, but wouldnt even be able to use. Itunes files only work with ipod.. so my friend with the archos device couldnt use that.
This “protection from ourselves” denies our very sentience as human beings, it insults our intelligence that our universities have decided to take OUR choice from us, and extort money from us under threat of denied education. (no diploma if you dont pay the bills).
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See:-
adjuncts – Big Music: selling in schools, p2pnet, December 13, 2004
December 14th, 2004 at 7:52 am
Don’t give up so easily. There are always ways to beat the system. Using an encrypted VPN proxy such as AnonX should be able to make any P2P protocol undetectable.
This would also be a good opportunity to explore new P2P networks and methods that will avoid detection.
December 14th, 2004 at 10:10 am
That would be fine if the files were common, and viewed by main stream media to be in the blacker end of p2p legitimacy/illegitimacy.
However, my material of choice is on the lighter end of those shades of grey. It is basically tacitly permitted, and thus bit torrent has become a nearly exclusive method for obtaining it. It is, though it cannot be authoritatively confirmed, legitimate traffic.