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Re: Do you block P2P ?
From: David Gillett <gillettdavid () FHDA EDU>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:22:10 -0700
Our objection to P2P is that it generally tries to saturate the afflicted machine's Internet connection -- and until pretty recently, on-campus Ethernet connections were frequently of higher capacity than the whole campus's pipe to the Internet. It wasn't what they were using it for, but that their method (P2P) denied other academic users access to the shared Internet connection. No content policing here.... David Gillett
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Sinatra [mailto:michael () RANCID BERKELEY EDU] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:46 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Do you block P2P ? IANAL, but I'd be concerned that blocking p2p based on what your IPS thinks is p2p could erode the "safe-harbor" umbrella DMCA provides your institution. Because you are actively policing traffic that is sometimes (commonly? mostly?--but not always) used for copyright violation, are you therefore liable for violations that get around your blocks? I assume that your counsel has reviewed how blocking policies relate to DMCA requirements, so there probably isn't anything to worry about. It does raise my curiosity, though... michael UC Berkeley
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- Re: Do you block P2P ?, (continued)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Daniel Bennett (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Kevin Wilcox (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Michael Sinatra (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Jeff Kell (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? John LaPrad (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Sweeny, Jonny (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Michael Sinatra (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Cal Frye (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Dennis Duncan (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? David Gillett (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? David Gillett (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Mclaughlin, Kevin (mclaugkl) (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? randy marchany (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Brian Epstein (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Cal Frye (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Kevin Wilcox (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Guy Pace (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Todd Humphreys (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? David Gillett (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Plesco, Todd (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Cal Frye (Sep 03)
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