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Re: Network access control
From: Russell Fulton <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:49:11 +1300
jkaftan wrote:
Russell: What are you doing with PTP restrictions? Are you just denying them if they have PTP software installed.?
We deny them if we see them using p2p software (as seen from the net). The legal situation is a bit different here -- our current copyright legislation has no concept of fair use -- it illegal to even rip a CD for your own use. New legislation before parliament will allow format shifting for personal use. Anyway four universities in Australia got sued by the local equivalent of the RIAA for supposedly facilitating the commission of copy right fraud. The case dragged on and cost millions of dollars because the universities in question could not show convincingly that they had a policy on copyright *and* were *actively* enforcing it. Our policy is that no one may use university facilities to breach copyright -- we publicise this widely and we warn anyone we find using p2p software. On campus if you are using p2p software for legitimate reason (e.g. downloading ISO using BT) you tell us and that it (we also had a group doing study on copyright infringement in the software industry and they were using limewire to see what software they could actually find, this we also deemed OK although it probably broke the letter of the law. For the residences the Student Admin folk simply decided to ban the use of p2p file sharing software. Skype is fine BTW. R
Current thread:
- Re: Network access control, (continued)
- Re: Network access control Jeff Murphy (Jan 19)
- Re: Network access control Jay Tumas (Jan 19)
- Re: Network access control Mike Wiseman (Jan 21)
- Re: Network access control Wes Young (Jan 21)
- Re: Network access control Julian Y. Koh (Jan 21)
- Re: Network access control Russell Fulton (Jan 21)
- Re: Network access control Wes Young (Jan 21)
- Re: Network access control Russell Fulton (Jan 21)
- Re: Network access control Jason Richardson (Jan 22)
- Re: Network access control jkaftan (Jan 25)
- Re: Network access control Russell Fulton (Jan 25)