[DMCA-Activists] Re: USC to Students: No Sharing Files

[Chris Ashley]

> MIT has taken a hands-off approach to its students'
> activities over the years, allowing students to use as much
> bandwidth as they want. The University of California at
> Berkeley and Stanford University have placed limits on how
> much bandwidth students can use.

My own institution in New Haven (<a href="http://www.yale.edu";>boola 
boola!</a>) has cut off Gnutella/Kazaa/etc. traffic to approximately 
56k performance downstream.  As a student computing assistant, I 
probably get that question more than any other.  Interestingly, the 
bandwidth limits only apply once you get off the campus network 
itself.  Any enterprising persons who wished to put together a 
Yale-only subset of Gnutella could still get good performance-- and, 
I'd wager, a diverse selection of browsable files.

Copyright violation is forbidden in the school's TOS, of course, but 
then posters are forbidden by the fire policy too. ;-)

--Chris