Re: What's your DMCA/P2P situation? was: Re: Do you block P2P ?

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

While this all might be interesting to lots of people here, this is a
*public* list with searchable archives.  Similar information posted to
another public list a couple years ago garnered some (what I'll call)
negative publicity for the institutions that shared.

- ken

Bob Bayn wrote:
> OK, instead of filling up everybody's inbox with little messages, if anyone wants to send the following info to me, 
> I'll post a summary the first of next week:
>
> # of DMCA take-down complaints so far in 2009
> # of students
> # of students in on-campus housing
> actions taken to block limit or shape P2P traffic
> geographic region (I won't report school names unless you want me to, but it's interesting that most of the RIAA's 
> top 25 schools are in the East and that has always been a curiosity  to me)
>
>
> Bob Bayn        (435)797-2396      Security Team coordinator
>   Stop by the "Security Bunker" in SER 301 to see our network
>   visualizers showing the continual attacks by outsiders.
> Office of Information Technology   at  Utah State University
> ________________________________________
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Gregg, 
> Christopher S. [csgregg () STTHOMAS EDU]
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:51 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Do you block P2P ?
>
> I think knowing the size of the schools would be a key item as well.  We have 2,500 resident students, and 11,000 
> total students (who could potentially be using wireless for P2P).  We don't block P2P.  We use the Packetshaper to 
> limit P2P bandwidth, and the residence hall network overall during normal business hours.  We have received about 120 
> DMCA complaints per year over the last two years.
>
> Chris Gregg
> Director of Information Technology
> Information Resources and Technologies
> University of St. Thomas
> 2115 Summit Avenue
> St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
> csgregg () stthomas edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Bob 
> Bayn
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:45 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Do you block P2P ?
>
> well, If we're comparing tallies (which I think is interesting), we've received 4 today and 215 this year.
>
> Bob Bayn        (435)797-2396      Security Team coordinator
>   Stop by the "Security Bunker" in SER 301 to see our network
>   visualizers showing the continual attacks by outsiders.
> Office of Information Technology   at  Utah State University
> ________________________________________
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Gary Flynn 
> [flynngn () JMU EDU]
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:40 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Do you block P2P ?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > p.s. we've received 42 DMCA notices so far today.
>
> We received about 20 around 11:30 this morning. The first this year.

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu   p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373