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Re: USC to Students: No Sharing Files: msg#00012
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Re: USC to Students: No Sharing Files |
MIT has taken a hands-off approach to its students'
activities over the years, allowing students to use as much
bandwidth as they want. The University of California at
Berkeley and Stanford University have placed limits on how
much bandwidth students can use.
My own institution in New Haven (<a href="http://www.yale.edu">boola
boola!</a>) has cut off Gnutella/Kazaa/etc. traffic to approximately
56k performance downstream. As a student computing assistant, I
probably get that question more than any other. Interestingly, the
bandwidth limits only apply once you get off the campus network
itself. Any enterprising persons who wished to put together a
Yale-only subset of Gnutella could still get good performance-- and,
I'd wager, a diverse selection of browsable files.
Copyright violation is forbidden in the school's TOS, of course, but
then posters are forbidden by the fire policy too. ;-)
--Chris
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