Re: Illegal Downloads

[Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

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.


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