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Re: RIAA Notices
From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:38:52 -0500
Anand S Malwade wrote:
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 ?
It's been interesting reading the range of options in the replies so far! We've done a number of things over the years, but our current practice is this: Normally, P2P traffic is limited by both bandwidth and total volume in each 24-hour period, so our non-P2P bandwidth performance is relatively acceptable. Using DHCP and NAC logs/records, I identify the user responsible for the IP at the time of the infringement. We use public addresses, so this isn't too terrible. You NATed folks would have to use NAT logs as well. We then enter the computers in question into a list which is prohibited from using P2P applications by a firewall rule in our Procera Packetlogic bandwidth manager. We record the details of the infringement, and notify the student of the infringement and that their P2P access is now blocked for the rest of the academic year. We clear the blocks in the summer as part of the clean-up of accounts and such preparing for the new year in September. The student is advised their responsibility is to both remove the infringing content and to cease infringing copyright altogether. The P2P block is just our way of helping them out ;-) They may appeal this restriction if they wish. -- Best Wishes for 2009, -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College Mudd Library, x.56930 -- CIT will NEVER ask you for your password! www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. --Sara Bernhardt.
Current thread:
- Re: RIAA Notices, (continued)
- Re: RIAA Notices Stanclift, Michael (Jan 26)
- Re: RIAA Notices Doty, Timothy T. (Jan 26)
- Re: RIAA Notices Tim Cline (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Brenda B Gombosky (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Joel Rosenblatt (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Scholz, Greg (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Ken Connelly (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Stanclift, Michael (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Peter Charbonneau (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Bob Bayn (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Cal Frye (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Doty, Timothy T. (Jan 27)
- Re: RIAA Notices Steve Worona (Jan 28)
- Re: RIAA Notices Manuel Amaral (Jan 29)