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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It seems odd that shout about it though, but good for them!
I still wonder why musicians get to keep bing paid for their work when I only get paid once!
Nice to know.
[quote comment="347613"]It seems odd that shout about it though, but good for them!
I still wonder why musicians get to keep bing paid for their work when I only get paid once![/quote]
They Shouldn’t have made a site about it if they wanted it to be a secret.
Great idea btw
This is nothing unusual. I know many schools that have private on-campus DC hubs.
There are also several schools that use networks such as WASTE that are harder to monitor and shut down.
I would love to be releasing stuff on that network, I would be so popular.. lol.
so cool purdue is looking like a really good option, number 2 school in piracy! I may be transferring there
I thought basically every school had a DC++ hub…this is not news.
I saw a post on What? that showed a url to a University-only tracker. It might’ve been Minnesota Uni or something. They blocked all IPs from it (it was a BT tracker) except from MU. Pretty cool.
So there is a P2P that hasn’t been updated in over a year, a RIAA list that was compiled 14 months ago and a “recent” blog post from August … what is this, time travel appreciatiton day? :)
[quote comment="347643"]I thought basically every school had a DC++ hub…this is not news.[/quote]
This is more than a DC++ hub
owned
how about an intranet tracker for torrents
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 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.
Yes. This knowledge will do nothing but hurt your cause.
[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 comment="347619"]They Shouldn’t have made a site about it if they wanted it to be a secret.[/quote]
[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]
I agree with both comments. You were even asked polity to please not report on this during your research. Thanks for honoring those requests. Any press is bad press.
This article fails. Exposing p2p networks and titling your article “to bypass RIAA” not only defeats the purpose of a “silent” network, but challenges the RIAA to shut it down. Great work.
[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.
Why do you pick one campus network to talk about? I think it’s only fair that you run a frontpage article for each of the hundreds of other schools with similar networks.
Once again, great job torrenfreak.
What seems to be the big deal here folks? With regards to the report here. If its all in house, surely (not shirely) theres no cause for litigation from the RIAA muppets. If there was cause, then ah suppose playing your music with the room door open is also a no-no!!Hell what about taking your fav cd to the guy/gal in the next room?
As the scousers would say “CALM DOWN LAD”
The article is poorly worded and is challenging the RIAA to act upon Purdue. The author must have some reason to hate Purdue
this is not the kind of publicity we need
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