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Re: The Real Congressional Agenda? (was Re: The House of Representatives on campus downloading)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 20:59:58 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net> Date: May 4, 2007 8:38:33 PM EDT To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com Cc: lauren () vortex comSubject: Re: The Real Congressional Agenda? (was Re: [IP] The House of Representatives on campus downloading)
At 06:00 PM 5/4/2007, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
You can bet that even as universities are the target today, conventional ISPs and their users in general will be in the crosshairs tomorrow.
In a sense, we are in the crosshairs now. Because we are in a university town, and our local university is cracking down on music and software piracy, people who engage in these activities are migrating off of the University network and asking us for service. They are also going to hotspots which we provide for businesses, attempting to monopolize the bandwidth at those locations. (We have been forced to employ anti-hogging and anti-piracy measures to keep them from doing so.) Abuses by these people and the software they host threaten to cripple our service. Ironically, the University, with its government-funded link to Internet2, could shoulder the load far better than we can with our more expensive bandwidth. We try to encourage these people to patronize our competitors (the cable and telephone monopolies) to avoid the problem. But ultimately, something must give. We can't afford to host illegal activity or to allow our networks to be monopolized by it when so many of our users have legal, important work to do. --Brett Glass ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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