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Re: Do you block P2P ?
From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:49:28 -0400
mike corcoran wrote:
How many of you block P2P on your campus? If you do block it, how many complaints do you receive because of it?
We rate-limit for sanity's sake, but we do not block P2P. We hope to be able to use our NAC to warn (not quarantine) clients when they launch P2P applications of the potential risks of copyright violation as an in-your-face educational tool, but we will not block the traffic. And yes, last year we had a couple hundred takedown notices. I get to process them all. -- Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College Mudd Library, x.56930 -- CIT will NEVER ask you for your password! www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation." --- William Blake, (1757 - 1827).
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- Re: Do you block P2P ?, (continued)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Charles Seitz (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Julian Y. Koh (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Isac Balder (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Daniel Bennett (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Kevin Wilcox (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Michael Sinatra (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Jeff Kell (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? John LaPrad (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Sweeny, Jonny (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Michael Sinatra (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Cal Frye (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Dennis Duncan (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? David Gillett (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? David Gillett (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Mclaughlin, Kevin (mclaugkl) (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? randy marchany (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Brian Epstein (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Cal Frye (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Kevin Wilcox (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Guy Pace (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Todd Humphreys (Sep 03)
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