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They are slowing from 10mbps to 2mbps.
We need to outlaw the Interwebs because it makes it difficult for obsolete business models to survive.
Just means that illegal downloads will be like a ronco chuicken rotisserie; Just set it and forget it!
You’ll see an increase in bandwidth use in the overnight hours while the kids are sleeping (one off!)
Time to crank it back even further to dial up speeds like 56k or 14.4k! Maybe 110 or 300 baud will teach them!
I got more dl’s than I know what to do with. :)
If you cannot enforce a law on infringement without infringing on everyone, then the law is no longer valid.
RIP DMCA
I’m surprised the IT guys don’t employ internet filtering or even QOS traffic shaping based on protocol and portnumbers. So for example, anyone using Bittorrent would have reduced speeds while anyone surfing the net, watching Youtube, playing online games, etc. wouldn’t notice any reduction in speed.
Is that kind of like changing out all your pipes to a smaller diameter?
UAA's Internet pirates love their "Harry Potter"
That according to a sampling of the movies, music and video games that copyright holders reported stolen from Internet addresses at the Anchorage campus. Of about 30 recent cases of illegal downloads, six were for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two," according to the University of Alaska. Among the other illegal downloads: reported at UAA:
• "The Adjustment Bureau"
• "Conan the Barbarian"
• "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" (video game)
• "Kung Fu Panda 2"
• "Paranormal Activity 2"
• "Water for Elephants"
• "Megamind"
• "Rio"
• "Big Sean: Finally Famous" (album)
• "Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown"
Copyright holders reported 75 illegal downloads in November at the UAA campus and another 35 at the UAF campus.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/01/2198477/uaa-slows-down-internet-to-fight.html#ixzz1fPOjhEGU
Students can easily get around this by going to WalMart and buying CDs and DVDs.
Run it overnight then. I’ve downloaded 20 GB beta versions of the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO a couple of times the past few months overnight, no problem, and I don’t even get 2 Mbps out of my cable connect at home.
This will do nothing but slightly inconvenience the students. It won’t put much of a dent in their downloading.
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Not all that unusual. We do the same sort of thing at the college where I work. It’s all about walking that line. You can’t block everything because some might be legal or legitimate. So we throttle things down to a speed that is completely unacceptable for the casual downloader. Students can’t complain that we are blocking them and the copyright lawyers can’t complain that we aren’t doing something prevent the piracy.
I love this one kid’s comment (whine) at the website:
I’ve got a better way to deal with piracy at UAA: Ignore it. It doesn’t hurt anyone. Study after study have shown that it doesn’t harm the income of the artists who create digital content, and some musicians vocally support piracy of their own work. Digital piracy is not morally comparable to stealing — the real wrong in actual stealing is that, when you steal something from someone, they don’t have it anymore. Piracy is just making a copy for yourself. This anti-piracy crusade is really about supporting a cottage industry of worthless lawyers who want to squeeze money out of cash-strapped students and universities and give it to themselves and the record labels. They’re worthless, money-grubbing middlemen. It’s insane for UAA to restrict everyone’s technology in order to feed that scam.