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Published: 12/05/07
Colleges Serious About Dealing With Copyright, Peer-to-Peer Issues
From the article of the same title by: Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica
Copyright and bandwidth issues related to peer-to-peer file sharing are a serious concern for colleges, which have taken a variety of approaches to the issue, according to a study by Elliot Kendall, network security architect at Brandeis University. Many schools have campus-wide education efforts and copyright-education programs aimed at offenders, while relatively few are offering free or subsidized music subscription plans, which have met with a tepid response from students. Slightly more than half of survey respondents have banned or limited peer-to-peer traffic or limited bandwidth. Most colleges quickly take action against students who attract copyright holders' attention, often at the first complaint, and by far the most popular punishment is taking away a student's network access. Other means of targeting bandwidth abuse include the use of separate residential and academic networks, giving peer-to-peer traffic a low network priority, throttling peer-to-peer traffic, and using commercial packet-shaping or access control applications. Meanwhile, some schools are focusing only on actual infringement rather than cutting down on all peer-to-peer traffic.

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