Because pirating is so much more evil than setting a garbage chute on fire.

Btw, Rapidshare has changed its protocols. No more limit on the amount you download, just the speed, which is capped at 500Kbit/s.

FCC Ruling on Comcast P2P throttling: http://www.circleid.com/posts/fcc_reprimands_comcast_internet_throttling/

…Nice bit of random info that is irrelevant and/or unexplained as to it’s meaning to the article…”

WoW (World of Warcraft) = game.
WoW distributes updates via P2P.
The college is restricting P2P usage.

Since updates are distributed weekly at most, in actuality WoW addicts could still get their fixes.
But it’s funny anyway.

PS: Do the college’s printers have to take the quiz too? After all, if the printers “get caught” three times they should have their internet access permanently revoked.

Wait a sec, who wants to see my homework? The RIAA? Why would they want to see it?

Also the new “piracy detection” generates too many false positives. Playing x-box or watching youtube videos are often red-flagged and your internet is throttled to dial-up speeds. Furthermore, this system has caused the entire campus to suffer from extremely high latencies, constant connection drops, and more. It really feels like Karl just decided to route/filter all internet traffic through a server somewhere in China.

I’m glad I’m not forced to use campus internet. The whole process of “stopping piracy” is basically **lets hang a lead ball around the neck of anyone who wants to use the internet. using the internet to pirate music will be so obnoxious there will be no desire to pirate** Seriously how do companies think this helps them. I’d simply love to buy some new CDs from amazon when I’m on campus, but the RIAA seems to think my SSL connection to protect my credit card hurts their bottom line (because all internet traffic is piracy right? thats why we need a bigger government to protect us from pirates)

You n00b. You were not first at all.

Since Seek42 no longer publicly promotes file sharing (privately it’s a whole different story) file sharing has slowed down a bit. However off campus and other alternatives are popping up. And as already posted Rapidshare has become much more popular especially for people who have multiple computers and/or friends which allows a full movie (6+ RS parts) to be grabbed quickly. Not many people are premium members.

As posted on the seek forums: “The name and the degree still aren’t very well known outside of Missouri, and that’s the difference”

Seriously.. stfu about a protest. Waving pieces of wood around doesnt do anything. And just as we are displaced on the internet.. so are they in RL. We all cant travel to one place and find the uber RIAA LORD and shove pickets up his ass.

STFU.

In my ansewr to this, I am saying that I have no wish to do this alone. Everything from organizing to rallying others, is something that has to be done by a group – it is not something to be done alone. What I am seeking is not to organize it alone, but rather to get others to get in the act of collective organizatin. It is in the spirit of COLLECTIVE ACTION, not an action with a central leader or anything like that.

And besides, hearing “go, action!” over and over again is at least better than hearing “copyright sucks, boo copyright” over and over again.

…Nice bit of random info that is irrelevant and/or unexplained as to it’s meaning to the article…

OMG !! Just 48 hrs in a month , gosh i wont be able to survive in such a hostile enviroment.

wayyy to slow, just get to routers capable of DD-WRT firmware, set them up using a OpenVPN bridged connection, it’ll join both your uni/home network. Everything you need is in there Wiki pages aswell.

Then just use some RDP on Windows and access all the stuff you download, transfer during lessons and your sorted.

first off, imageshack’s service easily circumvents the scheme, but that is to be expected.

there was also no requirement to complete the quiz if BT traffic was encrypted. in fact, procedures there were rather obfuscated and it was very hard to determine what was going on.

i did not feel comfortable at S&T at all — they seemed to be trying to look over my shoulder the whole time, but didnt really know how to act effectively…

I bet they’d see even more reductions if they restricted all Internet activity to eight six-hour windows. Imagine the justification: nearly everything you do with HTTP involves making a copy of something regulated by copyright, and besides, you’re not supposed to cite Wikipedia in papers anyway. Because you know that’s all they use it for. In fact, they’d even have to take a quiz about proper research methods each time they check their email. I bet their students would love that. Always assume the worst and restrict accordingly!
/sarcasm

have a laptop at college
and at home a pc/server

use the site
secure.logmein.com

log on to home pc
download torrents via home pc
return home to pickup the music.

if you live far away from college burn to a data dvd and have a parent/sibling mail you the dvd
it’s like a dollar something mailed via USPS.

Even if the cap applied to all traffic, one could still download using the home server (running Azureus + WebUI) and SCP to the computer at school. You’d have 1/2 the torrent traffic, since your uploads won’t appear on the school’s network.

Absolutely true. This is simply a symbolic act that the University disapproves piracy.

It’s a cheap way of citing their disapproval for illegal downloading.

@1:

Western societies have become complacent. If each society had to answer the clarion call to action, a mass protest would garner the attention of those in the political sphere.

Do they pay our bills?
Do they wash our clothes?
Do they cook the food?

Then they have no right to control other peoples gaming habits, i swear japan is the only country where they completely ignore addiction problems, and it wonderfully solves it’s self with time.

I am looking to start some kind of protest group to protest all the latest happenings related to copyright. However, I have no idea on how to proceed. Do you have any tips on starting a political group?

ROFL. Most valuable thing to come out of the RIAA/MPAA/etc in a decade.

Except for Britney Spears’ unintentional amusement value, perhaps.

Silly system, once someone does access a P2P network they can then share it on their local DC hubs, and students being friends can do each other favors when they dont have time in their 6hr windows..
eg:
Hey, forgot to DL X, can you dl it for me and put it on the hub…? next time you need something will do the same for you…

When will they learn? Brute force is not the answer, new silly laws are not the answer, and constantly fighting for each inch of the proverbial ground is not the answer… adapt,
adapt you useless _dinosaur_ motherfu…

And PLEASE stop with all the talk of organizing ourselves to rally etc… talk is cheap, organize something *then* invite/tell us so we can move our fat butts away from our computers to rally etc but for the love of god… stop talking the same thing over and over and over and..

Cheers!
CJ
http://www.ezee.se

And what’s so special about the Pirate Party? They are not quite notable, and even though they have been mentioned several times by newspapers, they pretty much have no members. I see nothing anywhere urging people to join the pirate party, nor is the Pirate Party urging simple protests.

Takes ordinary hardware and about 5 minutes setting up openvpn.