BitTorrent ‘illegal hacking program’
p2pnet.net News:- The University of Rochester is telling students BitTorrent is an illegal hacking program, it seems.
Surprised? Don’t be. Governments and schools and supposed educational organizations around the world are openly helping the major record labels, movie studios and software companies to brainwash kids with hard-core marketing propaganda, including spurious instruction on copyright which now has a place with the three Rs.
The ins and outs of intellectual property law are being heavily promoted by care organizations as the cartels freely use parent and government funded international school systems and child-care organizations to push product and marketing propaganda, the most recent example being the ludicrous Pause Parent Play marketing project.
School time and school staff are now routinely tapped for purely commercial purposes by the big four labels, major movie studios and software houses with supposedly independent organizations such as Childnet International and with SafeKids.com backing them up.
Penn State and the University of Rochester were among the first to willingly become virtual marketing, sales and enforcement units for the Big Four record labels, only one of which, Warner, is based in the US. The others are EMI (UK), Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) and UMG (France).
Mrs A thinks this is both shameful and frightening and pointed us to this post on College Confidential.
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Your child could be arrested at college! Life ruined.
I heard of a recent situation at the University of Rochester.
From what I understand, a student that had recently graduated got on the library’s computer and used a program called Bittorrent. The University called this program an illegal hacking program, and had the person arrested. Their life is ruined.
Now, the thing is, other colleges allow the use of the program and even host it on their servers. Seems like the U of R likes to shoot first, ask questions later.
They block the use of the Bittorrent program in some places, and leave it allowable on the libraray computers.
This seems like leaving a loaded gun on the desks in the library.
I hope your child doesnt get hurt……..
I would suggest that your child should move off campus as soon a is allowable, and avoid use of the colleges facilities.
Colleges are not what the were when you were in school.
They will easily turn students in for using napster, kazaa, etc. to download. If these same students were off campus, they would have the same rights as they do in your home. Buyer beware.
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See:-
copyright – They’re brainwashing YOUR child, p2pnet, July 4, 2005
marketing project – MPAA ‘Pause Parent Play’, p2pnet, July 22, 2005
backing them up – The Big Lie: Part II, p2pnet, June 8, 2005
Penn State – University p2p ‘report’, p2pnet, August 25, 2004
University of Rochester – ‘The courtship is complete’, p2pnet, August 23, 3004
College Confidential – Your child could be arrested at college! Life ruined, July 21, 2005
July 23rd, 2005 at 4:47 pm
If my school EVER told me bittorrent was an ‘illegal hacking program’ I’d:
1. Laugh in their faces.
2. Explain what a ‘hacking program’ really is.
3. Explain what bittorrent is, and its uses and benifits.
4. Write a good essay about bittorrent and explain why the policy against it is so ludacris.
5. Get every student I could to sign the essay as a petition.
Thats what I’d do… and I encurage ALL stupids to do the same!
Its so sad that these colleges are calling bittorrent the ‘illegal hacking program’… because it most certainly is not! Its a very benificial technology, thats used to distribute large files, Including Linux distroes and other large installs and software. And although some people use it for downloaing media that most would call illegal… Thats not bittorrent’s fault! Bittorrent is a much needed program in this day and age… and unless internet speeds become a LOT better within the year… it will always be needed.
July 23rd, 2005 at 5:35 pm
My son is going to Brunel Uni (UK) in Sept. I was scanning the computer network terms of use. In the middle is a statement that goes “P2P file sharing pograms (such as kazaa, grokster, bittorrent, Skype) are expressly forbidden”. I’m not exactly surprised, and the issue is likely to be bandwidth as much as copyright issues. Still irritating though to see Skype and BT lumped in with the rest.
July 23rd, 2005 at 9:01 pm
It would seem with the insertion of the RIAA and MPAA into the business of schooling that colleges and uni’s have become afraid. Not afraid for the students mind you, afraid for the institution. Where, oh where, is teaching students to think for themselves?
In the 60’s it wasn’t uncommon for students to band together on campuses across the nation to discuss methods of interfering with “the man” to disrupt the war machine. Usually the uni’s didn’t interfear and by being passive to the students activities on campus, they passively endorsed the think for yourself and after hours involvement in social gatherings. That spirit is being actively killed in the sake of the dollar. These schools instead of teaching young adults to think are backing up the cartels. From flying off at the handle (obviously wanting to say don’t use bittorrent; we could be held liable) without understanding the issues and wildly supporting the cartel in the process. The cartel has been well known to use misleading claims, wild speculation, and legal barriers as tools to get its own way. It has done so for so long that even the institutions and media are spouting its lines as the undeniable truth. When the facts are rubbed in it nose, the cartels blithely ignore what isn’t in their benefit or attempt to twist it into something more supportive of their ideas.
One wonders if that won’t be the major lesson learned by those students instead of thinking for themselves. No wonder the world is going to heck in a handbasket!
July 23rd, 2005 at 9:43 pm
This is F@$!%! up!
I’m a parent myself, and this is just nonsense. I’ve spoken to my school board about them teaching these “values” to my kids, and made it very clear that there are better values and issues to teach children. Whether you’re a parent, a student, or just an individual, make your voices heard. Tell them that this is INAPPROPRIATE and not the place for them to spread their propaganda. If they what to spread propaganda, there is already a mechanism in place — it’s called television and lamestream news.
July 24th, 2005 at 12:05 am
All people watching movies will forthwith be arrested on campus for supporting this mafia!
July 24th, 2005 at 2:13 am
I second that!
And they shall be beaten back to their senses, and subjected to “De-disinformation” and “De-propaganda” — OR — at their option, they may choose the MPAA punishment of being forced to watch hours on end of Teletubbies and Barnie!!!
Ha ha ha, take that !
July 24th, 2005 at 3:36 am
Don’t forget, they’ll have to PAY for the privilige of watching hours on end of Teletubbies and Barnie… After all, they’re being “entertained” by it.
July 24th, 2005 at 7:09 am
6. I would bitch-slap their admin/prof for their UTTER ignorance and stupidity. Anyone that stupid or easily PUSHED around, have not right being in front of the lecture teaching students.
Yeah, you heard me. I actually have a lot of weight on campus. (kidding about the bitch slapping, but I’ve actually TOLD several prof off or ARGUED PURSUASIVELY when they are acting stupid — Yes, it is your right to disagree!).
July 24th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
Um…doesn’t this totally smell of a bogus story? The person posting this on that forum was a new member with only 3 posts before it. T
here isn’t any link to a news story from a news source (sorry, p2pnet isn’t a news source…get back to me when it’s on CNN/BBC/New York Times.
July 25th, 2005 at 3:54 am
Grammar Nazi:
ludicrous
Please learn to spell.
July 25th, 2005 at 1:15 pm
Skype is owned and run by those 2 pricks who still own the fasttrack and are still up to their throats and still secretly involved with Kazaa. With a bit of luck they will be exposed when the real ownership lid is lifted on Sharman Networks. Skype belongs in the same sewer as those ugly parasitic hackneyed networks.
July 25th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
New York Times? Hows that supposed to make it any less bogus? It might be more interesting though from NYT…maybe some dirty bombs involved and sleeper cells or something.
July 25th, 2005 at 8:59 pm
MPAA/RIAA lies to people and slanders products where they are not screwing people out of cash. No surprise here.
September 1st, 2005 at 4:46 pm
SIU Carbondale has blocked most of the p2p programs out there, including Bit Torrent, IRC, DC++, all the way down the limewire. I had got in contact with one of the campus administrators and this is what they had to say about the matter.
Despite my plea that I would only be using bit torrent for legal use, (IE – http://www.systm.org, linux distros, etc…) they said that there was no way that they would unblock bittorrent, even for one person. Is this right? Is there something that can be done about this? Or maybe is there something that “you” can do about it without them neccessarily knowing…?
October 27th, 2005 at 10:35 pm
kk
August 28th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
I really wish I had read this before I went to the University of Rochester