March 25, 2004
BLOW IT OUT YOUR KAZAA
Kevin at Wizbang shares this rather alarming note about life on campus at The University of Florida, from which I graduated:
Today's college students live well. [...] But one modern convenience has been removed from the dorm rooms at the University of Florida. Campus residents can no longer use Kazaa, Morpheus or any other P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing software to download music, movies or software applications. The free lunch ended abruptly at the beginning of the 2003-04 school year, when network administrators working in the campus housing unit turned on software they developed that not only detects illicit network activity but also dynamically enforces acceptable-use policies without IT intervention.
In other words, forget the dorm room bongs, the porn, the booze, the drugs, the store-bought term papers, the steroids, the campus radicals, the date-rape pills, the religious cults, the cheap trucker speed, the underage athletic boosters, and, by all means, the illegal hot plates.
But crack down on music sharing?
Right.
I smell an eminent scholar endowment chair sponsored by the RIAA coming soon. Not to mention a quick workaround by the boys over at the computer lab on campus. Posted by Jeff at March 25, 2004 12:30 PM | TrackBack
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