Purdue University Launches P2P Network to Bypass RIAA
Written by Mike on April 15, 2008College students have always had the dubious distinction of being easy marks in the target against P2P file sharing. As of February 2007, the RIAA has dispatched thirteen new waves of litigation letters against U.S. University students in their ‘deterrence’ campaign aimed at more than 5,000 students. But one University is fighting back - albeit very quietly - and that’s Purdue.
Notoriously known for their aggressive pro-piracy stance and prolific file sharing, Purdue has never been one to fly under the RIAA radar. Perched at #2 on the all-time piracy “badass” list, they’re no strangers to RIAA’s threats, and students are continuously under attack in these personal litigation “waves”.
The RIAA threats are in large part due to the uncooperativeness of their Internet provider to assist in RIAA’s ‘nip it in the bud’ approach to thwarting music piracy at the school level. Not to be intimidated, however, Purdue has fired up their own P2P file-sharing “intranet” from behind the walls of their campus ISP. Dubbed ‘Dtella’ (from DC + Gnutella).
A Purdue student wrote on the CollegeOTR.com blog: “Maybe Purdue can’t beat other schools’ music scenes, frat-house parties, hot girls, and what not, but at least we’ve got them beat in the piracy department. After all, we are the #2 school in music piracy as noted by the RIAA.”
The filesharing network accomplishes two things:
1. It alleviates ‘bandwidth capping’ commonly imposed on all traffic that leaves the University’s intranet. When a file sharing program is self-contained within the ISP itself, there are usually no limitations to how much data can be transferred, and users are free to share huge amounts of files at high speeds. Currently, Purdue uses Resnet as their ISP which limits the daily traffic to a modest 5GB.
2. Even more important, it keeps the P2P traffic off the Internet, which in turn is advantageous for keeping file transfers out of the prying eyes of the RIAA or other anti-piracy organizations.
There’s nothing new about campuses using their “intranet” to share files, although it is relatively uncommon for one to take it a step further by setting up their own secure P2P network. This is simply a response to the RIAA threats and the countless ruined lives through pointless RIAA litigation.
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“I still wonder why musicians get to keep bing paid for their work when I only get paid once!”
They get paid ONCE, when you buy their album. That’s it.
Yeh. THANKS.
This article is filled with lies.
dtella is a gecko, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehyra
We’ve been keeping pretty quiet about this since Dtella came out. Why the hell did you take it upon yourselves to publicize it to hell? It’s on a public site so students can find it, not so torrenting sites can expose us and cause more RIAA problems than we already have. Thanks a lot.
Highly inaccurate. Take this down both for the sake of journalistic integrity and to avoid screwing over dtella.
Pretty damn amusing how these idiots are bitching about this article and how some secret was just revealed when the file sharing project is selling t-shirts with their name on it. http://wiki.dtella.org/wiki/Dtella:Shirt_Order
Purdue is not responsible for Dtella.
The article also makes the assumption that what is shared is copyrighted material, which cannot be proven. Purdue does not monitor in-network traffic so there is nothing more than suspicion and hearsay on the RIAA’s side.
As a student at Purdue University, I would like you to consider taking this article down. Let us be!
[quote comment="347764"]Pretty damn amusing how these idiots are bitching about this article and how some secret was just revealed when the file sharing project is selling t-shirts with their name on it. http://wiki.dtella.org/wiki/Dtella:Shirt_Order/quote
Aye, pretty stupid people waving it around, making merchandice then someone >>BLOGG<< about it and wow the “secret” is all exposed oh noez!1
If true its so stupid and idiotic it deserved to be “exposed”…..
Not Even Torrent Files!1
Wow, what a d-bag. You just destroyed one of the best things about purdue. A network of true freedom and you shat on it.
[quote comment="347787"][quote comment="347764"]Pretty damn amusing how these idiots are bitching about this article and how some secret was just revealed when the file sharing project is selling t-shirts with their name on it. http://wiki.dtella.org/wiki/Dtella:Shirt_Order/quote
Aye, pretty stupid people waving it around, making merchandice then someone >>BLOGG<< about it and wow the “secret” is all exposed oh noez!1
If true its so stupid and idiotic it deserved to be “exposed”…..
Not Even Torrent Files!1[/quote]
Because wearing shirts around a college campus (and the shirts dont say “We circumvent the RIAA” in giant letters) is equivalent to posting something on the internet for all to see
Go away torrentfreak
[quote comment="347672"]I doubt that Purdue set up the network, like the article says. This is likely little more than a student run effort. And now that it’s public knowledge, the university will be obligated to take measures against it. For a site that supports piracy, this one is really hurting the cause.[/quote]
It is a student-run effort. The University is not a fan of Dtella and will shut down people’s Internet access if they eating up too much bandwidth while using Dtella… It happened to a guy in my hall here…
This article does really hurt the cause, and will force Purdue to do something about it… Thanks a lot TorrentFreak…
They really should also clarify who set up this client… It’s a complete untruth to say that the University set it up to get around the RIAA…
You said it best…
[quote comment="347788"]Wow, what a d-bag. You just destroyed one of the best things about purdue. A network of true freedom and you shat on it.[/quote]
The inaccuracy of this article are appalling. If you are going to write an article and throw a group like this into the spotlight, at least know what you are talking about.
[quote comment="347608"]twitter-based real-time pre feed:
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#1 - the above guy is a fucktard.
#2 - C’mon, Mike - where’s your rebuttal? No? Thought not.
And for everyone else’s delectation, here’s Mike’s history on TF:
“Mike’s Latest Posts (See All 1)”
Fuckin’ n00bs…
“Notoriously known for their aggressive pro-piracy stance and prolific file sharing, Purdue[...]”
PPOSTFU, ‘Mike’
hrmm this is meant to be news? universities in Australia have been doing this for years?
You should be studying anyway.
You should be having a cock rammed up your ass anyway.
[quote comment="347838"]You should be having a cock rammed up your ass anyway.[/quote]
im sure he rams the cocks up there in his free time all by his wittle self
Kick ass.
Boring, WASTE has been around since 2003. We use it at our university and have for several years now.
Except that WASTE has way more overhead than a DC based network does.
If the network is underground, it definitely shouldn’t be revealed; that’s not cool.
On the other hand, it sucks that we have to be so scared of the mafIAA that we can’t even talk about important projects.
The project was revealed; its a voluntary student-driven beta-test of a potential file sharing program to be utilized at the discretion of students; there is nothing wrong with that.
There is, however, something wrong with the internet being a filtered, censored wasteland where over and over corporate interests demonstrate their complete control over what information the public is allowed to have and what information the public is not allowed to have.
I am not a communist, and I do believe in supporting and PAYING the creators of any work which is worthy of being paid for; however, it is entirely plausible to do so and not sensor the internet. This is not the case.
Idealistically, not only is file-sharing a minor offense, it is completely insignificant a crime compared to the complete and total control of the internet by corporate and government interest; and any condemnation over “file-sharing” should IMMEDIATELY be over-ridden with the infinitely more important condemnation of COMPLETE control of every form of media by corporate and government interests!!!
Practically, a lot of universities run, err, internal networks; Purdue is not alone.
Lots of students share files and receive no long term effects.
File-sharing does not equal theft, and without an immoral invasion of privacy isn’t [okay, that was idealistic, sorry].
But, your University has stood up for you, especially in the past; that is rare! Thank them! Tactfully worded, but they are your best line of defense against these retarded mafIAA dinosaurs.
The RMDs are realizing they are failing: they’ve switched to DRM-free, cut contributions to pirate hunters, have lost court cases against defendents and their pirate-hunters are being kicked out of every state in America and Europe.
I hope you are not completely f*cked over; realize that the RMDs are taking damage year after year for screwing over customers; and we support you. Hey, maybe try out WASTE?
Peace.
University of Toronto’s been doing this for years.
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