What am I meant to tell the researcher whose medical images hadn’t finished transferring when he arrived in the morning? You wouldn’t hoax call an ambulance now would you?

Breach terms of service and you get disconnected. This happens every day in universities across the world. Get over it.[/quote]

Lol, you totally missed the point of this article. Being disconnected and having private property illegally accessed are, well, as different from each other as the shores on different continents. Get over yourself and your misplaced confidence. Lrn2read.

In a meeting with myself and multiple staff members on this issue, I was asked to “collaborate” on “education in downloading” and university policies. I have declined to participate and instead teach students in biology labs (77 of them) how to use torrent files. I will continue to teach this in all of my classes until students don’t have to pay hundreds of dollars towards ms office, etc. Open-source, by way of torrents, is the way to go.

Please be aware, when the university threatened me with suing for illegal downloading, I was confused, but unworried. My only crime here is bandwidth consumption, not copyright infringment. The administrators were under the impressoin I was downloading illegal files. This is simply untrue, I am all for open-source software and don’t use windows, etc.

This all boils down to one thing; a mistake on UNC’s IT department. Hopefully everyone who is a graduate student, or an undergraduate, is aware that some uinversity administrations follow U.S. government tactics and do what they want to whom they want. The IT department at UNC is unique in how they handled-and continues to handle-downloading of anykind.

Keep up the file sharing.

Sam