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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[quote comment="348844"][quote comment="348842"][quote comment="348841"][quote comment="348840"][quote comment="348792"][quote comment="347695"][quote comment="347686"][quote comment="347676"][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]
Agreed. Take the article down and leave us alone.[/quote]
agreed[/quote]
Seconded.[/quote]
Thirded? or Fourthed…whatever[/quote]
It’s a chain[/quote]
your mom’s a chain[/quote]
I CAN SEE FOREVER[/quote]
I herd u liek mudkipz[/quote]
I agree completely.
That’s nothing compared to what we have at the university of xXxXx
We have xXxXx all around campus that we can access with any xXxXx at any time from any place on the planet.
The hardware is all free, we got it all with a grant from xXxXx and they don’t even know!
We are linked to every xXxXx and get live feed from xXxXx and all other xXxXx as well. We even share this all with other xXxXx
So far we have well over xXxXx of media with no end in site. And we will never get caught because we keep it a secret.
even if the students did set it up, i’m sure some of the staff knew what was going on anyway, probably some IT guy somewhere, or a teacher that overheard someone. the RIAA in general is gay, and shouldn’t even think to arrest anyone unless their selling it
[quote comment="349008"][quote comment="348844"][quote comment="348842"][quote comment="348841"][quote comment="348840"][quote comment="348792"][quote comment="347695"][quote comment="347686"][quote comment="347676"][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]
Agreed. Take the article down and leave us alone.[/quote]
agreed[/quote]
Seconded.[/quote]
Thirded? or Fourthed…whatever[/quote]
It’s a chain[/quote]
your mom’s a chain[/quote]
I CAN SEE FOREVER[/quote]
I herd u liek mudkipz[/quote]
I agree completely.[/quote]
Hmm, what comment shall I put in order to make this quote block longer…
lol if you read from the top down you can see all the sheep who fell in line/digested and regurgitated opinion.
lmfao
whats with the knocking of TF?
they dont MAKE news, they publish it.
its just a slow day.
you want a new cnn or something?
go fuck yourself
Sadly we don’t need to fuck ourselves, with the network now mentioned on places like Digg, Google News, and in popular blogs, the RIAA probably now is aware of it and its form and is going to begin pressuring Purdue to shut it down, so we have other things to worry about on one of your “slow news days”.
It’s nice to share on a school network. Since it’s a LAN, it’s out of range for Mediasentry and others like it.
If the IrAA cronies do access the p2p network of a school’s PRIVATE network they can be charged with computer crimes themselves for unauthorized access.
[quote comment="348866"]I love how randomly all the comments turn to hatred.
I am still very appreciative of your article.
And I doubt the RIAA checks Torrentfreak often…[/quote]
hatred isn’t the focus here. we would prefer not to get a lot of publicity outside of campus and the main problem is that the info in the article is grossly inaccurate. Though that in itself may lend it to not being looked at seriously too.
[quote comment="349333"][quote comment="349008"][quote comment="348844"][quote comment="348842"][quote comment="348841"][quote comment="348840"][quote comment="348792"][quote comment="347695"][quote comment="347686"][quote comment="347676"][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]
Agreed. Take the article down and leave us alone.[/quote]
agreed[/quote]
Seconded.[/quote]
Thirded? or Fourthed…whatever[/quote]
It’s a chain[/quote]
your mom’s a chain[/quote]
I CAN SEE FOREVER[/quote]
I herd u liek mudkipz[/quote]
I agree completely.[/quote]
Hmm, what comment shall I put in order to make this quote block longer…[/quote]
omg, gogogogo!
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I fully agree.
[quote comment="348866"]
[...] And I doubt the RIAA checks Torrentfreak often…[/quote]
I doubt you have the capacity for independent thought, dumbfuck…
[quote comment="349521"]lol if you read from the top down you can see all the sheep who fell in line/digested and regurgitated opinion.
lmfao
whats with the knocking of TF?
they dont MAKE news, they publish it.
its just a slow day.
you want a new cnn or something?
go fuck yourself[/quote]
there’s a difference in publishing facts and misinformation.
That’s right, FIGHT THE POWER!!!
Purdue students are also the inventors of bubble gum flavored hydro weed. ;)
“Notoriously known for their aggressive pro-piracy stance and prolific file sharing”
Notoriously? I’d rather say ‘gloriously’.
That’s the way to go, Purdue!
—
(A message to students, complaining about the article):
Dear friends. I know it’s hard. There’s always a great temptation to stay underground until it’s completely safe. But times have changed and we need to gather all of the community and deliver the final blow.
Don’t look for a way which only seems easy. Don’t hide like if you’re criminals who you aren’t. Don’t make any compromises with your conscience.
You must not fear mafiAA, you must fight openly like others do now. You must force fat pigs to respect your inalienable right for informational freedom. Again I repeat: it’s hard. But it’s what has to be done. Better world never comes cheap.
man got a 50tb 1000user+ hub running for years at this campus, even larger at some times. but good sheet purdue
They should lose federal funding for this type junk!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
The more people stand up and say NO!! then the harder it is for them to control you… The rotten greedy pricks can’t hold on forever if tell them to fuck off.
[quote comment="350836"]man got a 50tb 1000user+ hub running for years at this campus, even larger at some times. but good sheet purdue[/quote]
dtella at this very moment has… 743 users, and 60.18TB. and that’s just logged in at the time, there are more users that don’t just sit on and veg all day, not to mention some of the users are on the IRC chat only and not sharing anything. so whose e-penis is bigger?
come on people I went to a small university of less than 5000 on campus people, and i ran a members only DC++ based network there. this is nothing new. anyway from what I can tell the ptokax based system we were using along with a few custom scripts were vastly superior to dtella. 4 years ago we had a total share of over 30 Tb, over 60% of the students were members (and some staff), and we had an average upload / download speed of 40 mb/s, and we also used an RSA based encryption system for security.
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