Comments on: University of Missouri Blocks All P2P Traffic

By: jd607

jd607 — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:55:11 +0000

I go to Mizzou and can honestly say the P2P ban hasn’t been that big of a deal. I don’t know of anyone who used these programs to download legal content anyway. The saved bandwidth makes it easier for students to access information for research.

By: 64ninjas

64ninjas — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:54:28 +0000

Central Washington does this same thing and blocks all bittorrent traffic. If I want a copy of ubuntu I’m stuck waiting for a 3 hour internet download instead of fetching a local copy off a seeder somewhere on campus.

By: tuomas

tuomas — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:54:44 +0000

well… if you have linux (not needed, just easier) and a shell account, you could encapsulate torrent protocol inside html protocol… You will need a shell account and some knowledge:

Tunneling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling_protocol

http://www.whalesalad.com/2006/08/27/tunneling-bittorrent-over-ssh/

That should help.

By: bnoise

bnoise — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:17:03 +0000

Well in my university only http traffic is allowed and I think it’s right (sure I’d like to use BitTorrent ). Let’s be objective, legal downloads are a very very small percentage, and even if you assume all students are downloading free stuff, BitTorrent could be banned to save bandwidth.

By: guenthar

guenthar — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:24:53 +0000

I bet the amount of students attending that school will start dropping when all those people transfer out.

By: Scharfschutze

Scharfschutze — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:18:27 +0000

The benefits outweigh the negatives. Software for starving students is an excellent example for great stuff for students to download via Bittorrent, but now, due to MU’s new “block everything so we don’t have to deal wit hit” policy, students will have to rely on the HTTP server, putting pressure on the site.