MIT Harbors The Most P2P Pirates
Written by Ernesto on May 13, 2009College students have always been prime targets for anti-piracy outfits such as the RIAA. Despite inundating students with mountains of threats and legal action, the number of copyright infringements committed by them have not declined. What did change though is the positioning of various universities in the list of most infringing establishments.
There are many school selection guides on the Internet, but none of them lists universities ranked by the number of recorded copyright infringements. Thanks to the copyright infringement “Trends & Insights” report published by BayTSP today, we can construct such a list.
In the United States, MIT is leading the list for the second year in a row, followed by the newcomer University of Washington. Purdue University dropped 4 spots and is now ranked 8th, but this could be due to the fact that students at Purdue launched their own private P2P network.
BayTSP reports that the overall number of copyright infringements hasn’t changed much over the past three years, despite the expensive anti-piracy systems that were implemented.
Copyright infringements per university in the US
BayTSP also recorded statistics for non-US universities and schools, topped by the University of Botswana. Greece is well represented with four universities in the top 10 and Polish universities are up and coming with three entries. Sweden – home of The Pirate Bay – completes the top 10 with Uppsala University in second place and students from Gothenburg in 10th.
TorrentFreak discourages prospective students from using these lists to select an appropriate school.
Copyright infringements per university worldwide
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hum?
world kicks usa @ss
MIT FTW!
Obviously, tons of smart people pirate stuff.
Who are you going to trust – MIT’s physicists, computer scientists, and other brilliant people, or the lobbies, politicians, and CEOs?
Lol, that list cannot be valid. Everything on the internet is copyrighted, whether people want it or not. Alas, every single person using the internet is pirating.
w00t MIT!
TorrentFreak discourages prospective students from using these lists to select an
appropriate school.
*chuckle*
I’d like to see one with infringments per student.
For sure the lads at MIT are the ones I’d want on my side. They’re probably working on a rfc proposal as we speak for a better tomorrow. ;D.
Still waiting for first lawsuit against Harvard student.
ah, im from massachusetts; they must be hiding all the intelligent people at MIT because this state just doesnt have any
My university places no restriction on torrents in their network, I like to drop by and make use of their 50Mbit connection both ways when I’m in the area.
Even the public wi-fi anyone near campus can freely access is this speed.
I’m sure the *AAs like to go after students at fancy schools, since their families might actually have enough money to settle out of court.
botswana ftw
Massachusetts rules the board, love it
@9: Ivy League is notorious for having alumnus paying their dumb kids’ way into college… so I’m guessing the per capita average of kids with more money than brains is going to decrease the overall piracy usage. Kids who are spending all their money, driving themselves into large debt, and living off instant noodles to go to a nice college would seem to be more the kind that might not be able to afford that new CD release the week it comes out.
overrated :\
Full list anywhere?
Note this only charts “copyright infringements” that are spotted by BayTSP. There are probably lots of file sharing done that is not caught. For example, who knows what is happening on university private networks.
The main reasons for this is that
in the Greek universities the police
cant get in due to the universities immunity law
and also the hi speed line
that you cant find anywhere else in Greece….
USA future president is piracyng right now! How world will be with hipocrytal as president? oh wait, it already is…
Is there a full list anywhere ?
I kind of hate how there aren’t direct links to the sources of the articles here, most of the time. Kind of reduces the credibility.
weird
Suddenly MIT is at the top of my list.If only I had a 4.0. :(
University of Cincinnati filters torrents :( anyone offering free ssh proxy?
Blah blah blah so what that people in the ivy do a lot of torrenting nothing them miaa or what ever ya call it fu*ck them miaa ifpiaa what ever…..
@9, they wouldnt do that. All it would take is that to piss off thousands of their potential lawyers ;)
“TorrentFreak discourages prospective students from using these lists to select an
appropriate school.”
Was that just an incentive to encourage people to do so? that was indeed the first thing that came to mind as soon as I had read the title of the article–plus these schools would do better–more money for them. And… was torrentfreak forced to say this in order to avoid being held “liable” for anything? i haven’t seen a single website getting a successful lawsuit for the information it gives. Conversely, the more the record industries tell people not to pirate the more people do it.
“Was that just an incentive to encourage people to do so? that was indeed the first thing that came to mind as soon as I had read the title of the article–plus these schools would do better–more money for them. And… was torrentfreak forced to say this in order to avoid being held “liable” for anything?”
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it was a joke, you idiot.
wasu ftw!
@ 20
Who cares about your retarded movie blog?
@23 there are always sources listed for articles here, including this one, didnt you read the part where it NAMED the source? Some people….
“TorrentFreak discourages prospective students from using these lists to select an appropriate school.”
Hehehe :-D
And the future come from University of Washington:
http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/
Greece, what a shit hole.
this is the future :
http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
Thanks torrentfreak, I’ve already selected an appropriate school. You have helped me alot on my choice with that list of yours. ;)
Not one Canadian university/college on the list. I thought Canada was pirate haven and needed new copyright laws. I guess the USTR was wrong with that report (surprise) and we here in Canada can continue on without our own DMCA.
MIT must not be to smart if they are getting caught… and Im pretty sure there are at least 10K infringements per day at least. The school that should be #1 is the school with 0 on this scale.
go Greek Univesities!
@41
Im sure that if other countries also had the immunity law like the greek universities would be different.
Did you know that inside the universities in Greece you can do anything you like without any consequences?!
The police can only enter if someone actually died!
No UK Uni’s made the list :( we will have to set it up a bit over here :P
Wish I could someday go to MIT…
ELA PAME ELLADARA GERA !
so itelergent people share and the haters intellectual challenged (haters) are just that idiots.
nice to know that all this pro ip comes from people who have no clue.
kinda makes sense really there always spreading rubbish about p2p and science. a bit like those idiots who say there effected by radio waves but not anything higher on electromagnet spectrum.
Good news just really shows who were really fighting a war against the idots
“TorrentFreak discourages prospective students from using these lists to select an appropriate school.”
I don’t know if the USA is so ridiculous that you have to add a disclaimer like the above.
If it was written to take the piss then 10/10 :-)
It LOL’d me ;-)
Elladara reeee, gamame xaaa :D
The UW received hundreds of invalid complaints from BayTSP and many are likely included in their data. See more info related to their bad data at dmca.cs.washington.edu
GO BU!
(P2P class of ‘98)
go UMass!
I go to UMass… and I got a cease and desist letter a few years ago! I knew things were bad, but not that bad. Go Massachusetts, the home of American pirates.
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Bleh, I alone should make University of Houston number 1.
The University of Nebraska was on that list in 2007. In 2008 they are not because when the RIAA asked for the information on the ip’s, they got the information but before giving it to them, they asked the RIAA to pay them for the time to find each student. The RIAA would not pay. Therefore, no students for them
Ask this dude what he thinks about it
http://www.csail.mit.edu/people/David_Clark/reminder
Please, I infringe more copyrights by myself than a whole university together? :p
There’s a reason they’re called ‘dark nets’
gogo Uppsala =)
@greece
Nope man, it is not the case.
Numerous times AUEB, UoA and NTUA have been asked to stop p2p activity in their networks.
The crime can be verified from outside the campus so no need to go in.
Additionally, you simply press charges against the university, why does a cop have to go in? To do what?
Anyhow, the problem is the ridiculously overprized life cost of Greece which directly leads to this actions….
” infringements per (ENTIRE) university in US =< 2500 ”
!YEAH RIGHT!
Am I the only one who thinks people are reading this wrong??
If more cases were reported that means that more people were CAUGHT not that more people were pirating… :S
I bet there are other universities pirating more… users just don’t get caught (maybe the university doesn’t report or just doesn’t care)
Am I missing something?
LF, you’re probably right; it’s just not exactly reported that way (when glancing the charts/remarks in the article)
MIT is the best university in the USA hands down. For every pirate that got caught there 100 got away. I wasn’t good enough to get admitted to MIT, but I know that the people who were are among the smartest people on earth.
While we sit here and post, MIT students are building and designing the things we will be doing on the internet (or maybe something superior which takes its place) 10-20 years from now.
If the idiots from the anti-piracy groups go after people who are that much smarter than themselves, they will only come away from it broken and defeated.
MIT rockz
Team up with Harvard Law & bring down RIAA
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