Re: Ohio University announces changes in file-sharing policies

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Geoff Kuenning <geoff () cs hmc edu>
Date: April 27, 2007 12:01:15 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: Ohio University announces changes in file-sharing policies

> Ohio University announces changes in file-sharing policies ATHENS,
> Ohio (April 25, 2007) - In an effort to ensure that every student,
> faculty member and researcher has access to the computer resources
> they need, Ohio University announced today it will restrict the use
> of all peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing on the campus computer
> network.

How Orwellian.  To ensure that faculty have "access to resources,"
they're going to keep faculty from using BitTorrent to download those
resources.  Uh huh.
--
    Geoff Kuenning   geoff () cs hmc edu   http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/

The P in "PDF" is a lie.


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