Comments on: Tackling College Piracy: The P2P Quiz https://torrentfreak.com/tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:11:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Anonymous /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-486566 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:23:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-486566 It’s a little strange that people seem to concentrate more on the filesharing of MST than the huge amount of drinking going on, the suicides, and constant bomb/antrax/taking over the nuclear reactor threats.

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.

]]> By: MS&T /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-485604 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:25:14 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-485604 The P2P blocks and bandwidth throttling enforced at MS&T are taking the University back to the stone age.

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

]]> By: baka pinkuu /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-484586 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:50:54 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-484586 re: Isaac, who said
“”However, it’s one potential way to prevent WoW addiction in students.”

…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.

]]> By: oneplusone /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-484474 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:15:55 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-484474 So you’re going to college, huh? Wow! Think of the growing and learning you’ll do. No more parents and their irrational fears and pointless questions. Yup, the world is your oyster…

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

]]> By: S&T Student /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-484435 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:16:20 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-484435 The quiz is bullshit and easy to get past, plus you can retake it until you get it right.

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)

]]> By: p2p quiz? /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-484328 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:16:44 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-484328 Thought some of the p2p quiz might have been with this story.
Can we see some of it please?

]]> By: Izumi-sensei /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-484141 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:30:42 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-484141 In actuality, I mean to start protesting in separate locations. What is very important is not just for one person to act, but for everybody to act at the same time, perhaps find people near them, and plan separate things for separate locations.

]]> By: lol /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-484136 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:09:25 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-484136 @ 2

You n00b. You were not first at all.

]]> By: UMR /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-484108 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:01:10 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-484108 I go to MST and it’s still really easy to get anything you want. The entire student body is as nerdy and dorky as it gets. Someone on campus has what you want. We can browse all the computers sharing out files in which ever dorm building you’re in. For a few years a sharing tool called Seek 42 (http://www.seek42.net) was UMR/MST’s primary sharing method. It’s been shut down and the seniors of the program have moved on or graduated. Now it’s run by a bunch of newbs (who think they’re the shit) who are Karl’s bitches and adhere to all of his commands.

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”

]]> By: blah /tackling-college-piracy-the-p2p-quiz-080811/#comment-484060 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:16:03 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3678#comment-484060 OH i didn’t know about PIRACY , NOW THAT I DO ….SOUNDS GOOD TO ME SIGN ME UP.

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