Re: Illegal Downloads

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

 Roger Safian ventured to comment, at 9/5/06 2:44 PM:
> At 01:29 PM 9/5/2006, Gibbs, Aaron M. put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> > Lately I've seen an increase in the number of illegal downloading of music,
> > games, etc. (the RIAA seems to have me on their permanent distro). I've blocked
> > the ports that I've been able to identify and restricted a number of sites. I
> > need some suggestions on how other institutions are handling this activity.
>
> Personally I think you'll just end up playing a never ending game of
> "whack a mole" with this strategy.  I'd suggest you purchase something
> that can restrict your P2P traffic automatically, according to the
> policies you set.  I'd recomend a PacketShaper.  You might also already
> have some filtering functionality in your firewalls and or IPS.
I'd second the Packetshaper, as a general-purpose device good for managing
other bandwidth issues, as well as diagnostic work. But others have had
success with more targeted appliances intended to block P2P applications
alone, perhaps one of them will also chime in here...

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