Re: What's your DMCA/P2P situation? was: Re: Do you block P2P ?

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

Numbers in aggregate certainly shouldn't point any fingers at specific
institutions, so in that regard this sounds better.  The companies
sending DMCA takedown notices should already know how many they've sent
out (and to whom), so I don't see an ad hoc report providing additional
ammunition there either.  It's certainly better than foo.edu saying "We
got 300 DMCA notices this month, that's more than we got all of last
year." and then getting that ill-thought admission published.

- ken

Bob Bayn wrote:
> Good point, Ken.  For anyone who sends their school name, I'll replace it with my assessment of the geographic 
> region.  To further obscure institutional identity, I'll change the student counts to size classes before reporting 
> back next week.  Is there any concern that the sanitized tabulation could cause any PR or legal grief?
>
> Bob Bayn        (435)797-2396      Security Team coordinator
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> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] What's your DMCA/P2P situation?  was: Re:  Do you block P2P ?
>
> While this all might be interesting to lots of people here, this is a
> *public* list with searchable archives.  Similar information posted to
> another public list a couple years ago garnered some (what I'll call)
> negative publicity for the institutions that shared.
>
> - ken
>
> Bob Bayn wrote:
>
> > OK, instead of filling up everybody's inbox with little messages, if anyone wants to send the following info to me, 
> > I'll post a summary the first of next week:
> >
> > # of DMCA take-down complaints so far in 2009
> > # of students
> > # of students in on-campus housing
> > actions taken to block limit or shape P2P traffic
> > geographic region (I won't report school names unless you want me to, but it's interesting that most of the RIAA's 
> > top 25 schools are in the East and that has always been a curiosity  to me)

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
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