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1/13 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/edlife/13BAND.html?pagewanted=print The article mentions 'Direct Connect.' What other file sharing programs are in use these days besides this and Morpheus and other FastTrack variants. Any CSUA members in the dorms or otherwise with big pipes care to comment? \_ irc \_ yeah, I've got a big pipe for ya \_ http://vadim.berkeley.edu \_ hi paolo! \_ nice going vadim, taking scheme.xcf.berkeley and changing it to vadim.berkeley. fucking tactless egomaniac. \_ I thought the useless xcf was shut down years ago? -alum \_ It was. It has become... the Vadim Computing Facility. \_ This is probably funny but I don't know who Vadim is or the current xcf situation. Is it dead or what? \_ Not dead. There's one member. \_ Just using your powers of deduction, see if you can infer what that one member's name is. \_ check http://zeropaid.com for an extensive listing of file sharing prorams. -- jj \_ the Dec207 warez club! \_ The dorms don't have a big pipe anymore. They're collectively limited to ~20Mbit. That's 4,000+ hosts. UCB dorm net is pretty much useless these days. Residents keep trying to get DSL installed because it's faster. \_ Buncha whiners. I felt lucky to have 14.4 access after I got access to the staff/professor modem bank and off the busy and broken 1200-9600 student bank. Doing classwork on campus was better anyway. Easily block remote connections to your workstation and keep all those other pesky students dialing in at 2400 on some other machine. \_ in my day, we used smoke signals. on a clear day with a small enough wind we could get ten bits per minutes, and we were damn pleased with that. \_ They allowed you to have smoke? And you knew what the sun looked like? And wind? You had wind?? You must be new around here.... \_ Petition them to increase the size of the big pipe. This is not 1991 anymore, when I spent big bucks to upgrade to a 9600 modem. \_ The problem with the dorms is that they'll use (for napster clones, mostly) all the bandwidth you'll give them, and the campus pays for bandwidth used to the commodity net. Dorm traffic isn't limited if it goes over Internet 2. -tom \_ Cool. Now they just need a multi-campus I2 p2p thing going and they're set. I've got this idea for a business model... I just need $325m in funding now.... \_ Two words: traffic shaping. Eliminate this bandwidth cap bullshit, and use traffic shaping to limit obscene traffic caused by p2p filesharing apps. Dorm net becomes useable again. \_ A few more words: apathy, money, unimportant. It isn't worth anyone's time to fix the dorm net situation. Who cares? Let them eat cake! Is there a minimum bandwidth promised or an SLA in the current dorm contract? Do people *really* choose the dorms because they have net? Was the <DEAD>dorm.net<DEAD> the deciding factor for anyone's living arrangement? If so they need to get over it. \_ Clearly, that's the way campus wants to go, but it's rather difficult in our environment. -tom \_ that's 20Mbit to off campus. |
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| www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/edlife/13BAND.html?pagewanted=print By Lisa Guernsey (NYT) 3038 words Late Edition - Final , Section 4A , Page 24 , Column 2 ABSTRACT - College Internet infrastructures face bandwith crises because of heavy student trading of multimedia files, which are notorious for clogging networks; schools view reliable high-speed Internet access as big selling point and have installed some of biggest pipes available, but are still at times unable to handle volume; face threats of suits from record industry and software makers for enabling copyright infringement by students; their large, fast campus networks are also vulnerable to abuse by malicious hackers and virus writers; universities have started to crack down on how networks are used, even as they try to keep their commitments to openness on their networks; photos (special section, Education Life) Please Note: Archive articles do not include photos, charts or graphics. How multi-packs work: A multi-pack is an archive package that saves you money by allowing you to pre-purchase a set number of articles in bulk at a reduced price. You can then debit from your multi-pack and quickly access articles from the archive at your convenience over the lifetime of the multi-pack. Please Note: Article Archive 1996-Present multi-packs are not valid for use with Article Archive: 1851-1995 multi-packs and vice versa. Once you purchase an article, you may view it as often as you like over the next 90 days. |
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| zeropaid.com Malicious Intent on May 14, 2004 @ 01:25am The basic issue before the lawmakers this week was whether the DMCA infringes upon fair-use allowances for copying copyrighted materials for one\'s own personal use. Supporters of the Digital Media Consumers\' Rights Act of 2003 -- sponsored by Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) and John Doolittle (R-California) -- argue that the DMCA prevents consumers from making fair use of encrypted materials. Malicious Intent on May 14, 2004 @ 01:09am When P2P became popular under Napster, this community was the undisputed king of file-sharing. Its impressive array of mp3 files drew an enormous quantity of individuals to this network, totaling nearly 15 million at its peak. However, its glory would not last as the RIAA successfully forced the closure of this network. Permanent indexing servers that were affixed to Napsters home in Silicon Valley were this communitys Achilles heal. Jorge on May 13, 2004 @ 12:30pm Napster moved into damage control mode today after a university gave some idea as to how much a RIAA music tax will add to student costs. Ohio University has put up a survey site to see if students are willing to pay $3 per month for the Napster music service. The $3 figure is the first concrete number given by any school indicating how much Napster and its RIAA bully force are looking to muscle out of students. Ohio University believes it will need 5,000 students to pay the $3 fee to make Napster a break-even proposition for the school. Napster has demanded that Ohio University stay silent about the price before anyone catches wind of the cost. Lawmakers Support Scaling Back Copyright Law posted by Anonymous on May 12, 2004 @ 11:00am An effort to scale back a controversial copyright law gained momentum Wednesday when a powerful committee chairman said consumers should be allowed to break the digital locks that prevent them from copying DVDs and other materials for personal use. Kryojenix on May 11, 2004 @ 08:00am Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users - including those using pirated copies of its Windows XP software. |