Re: RIAA Notices

[Steve Worona <sworona () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

Regarding the parts of this thread discussing the Higher Education
Opportunity Act (HEOA):

For a reasonably quick overview of the past, present, and future of
HEOA's P2P provisions, see
<http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/OnMakingSausage/47454>.
Among the references at the end of that article, you'll find a link
to the "Manager's Report" that provides extensive discussion as to
legislative intent
<http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2008_07_29_E/Statement_of_Managers.pdf>.
In that latter document, the relevant pages are 115-117. On Dec. 31,
the Department of Education announced
<http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-31176.pdf> that the P2P
provisions will be the subject of "Negotiated Rulemaking", with
single-issue negotiators focusing on that topic alone. Negotiations
are supposed to start in February.

Someone in the thread made reference to HEOA Section 773, and, in
particular, language referring to watermarking, fingerprinting, etc.
Section 773 is narrowly focused on a new (unfunded) R&D grant program
aimed at developing material for students with print disabilities,
with no direct or indirect connection to the general P2P provisions
under discussion.

Steve
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At 9:01 AM -1000 1/26/09, Michael Sana wrote:
> Aloha,
>
> Not trying to hijack this thread but I think its relative...
>
> 1. For those who have indicated that they don't block P2P, do you feel
> that your safeguards in place meet the requirement of the Higher
> Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) regarding developing plans to
> "effectively combat" the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted
> materials?
>
> 2. For those who block P2P, how do you deal with distinguishing between
> legitimate P2P transfers such as an ISO Linux download versus
> copyrighted material.
>
> We are currently using a packet shaper to identify/throttle/block P2P in
> conjunction with a CS MARS box to readily flag/identify if it believes a
> P2P transaction is occurring.  From there, we can cross reference the
> internal IP with Bradford to identify who the laptop is registered to
> (not always necessarily the owner).  And because we NAT, I can also use
> CS MARS to do a query on reverse NAT translations when the dreaded
> letters come in.  This process is still currently in refinement...
>
> mike.sana.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Anand S Malwade
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 5:02 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] RIAA Notices
>
> All,
>
> I was wondering how other Universities deal with RIAA notices ? Do you
> really invest the time and effort to track down ? what methodology and
> tools do you use for investigation ? Do you block all peer-peer traffic
> ?
>
> Thanks,
> Anand
>
> Anand Malwade
> Information Security Officer,
> Seton Hall University
> malwadan () shu edu