DamnedIfIknow used our news submit to tell us
about this story he saw over at C|Net. According to the report, Hollywood is
poised to up the ante in its war against file swappers, with new technology that
could make it easier to remove suspected pirates from campus networks.
"I think the last part of the article sums up my feeling about this: "The trouble I have with this, there will be countermeasures, and who is going to absorb costs to constantly modify this system to make it work? Do universities really want to be drawn into the arms race?"
Typically, it can take days or weeks for a
university to act on a copyright violation request. When a request reaches
the IT administrators, they must investigate who used the IP address in
violation of its file-sharing copyright policies. Then they send a note to
the residential housing adviser where the student lives. The adviser then
sends a note to the dean's office about the student's activity. And the
dean will act on the school's policy for such behavior, notifying the
student and potentially disconnecting Internet access to the student's
machine.
 ACNS
would trigger such e-mail notifications and could automatically choke off
the student's access to a peer-to-peer network, while leaving his Internet
or e-mail connection untouched. Depending on the school's policy, it could
put the student into a 30-minute penalty box, without access, on the first
offense. The second offense could warrant a week without peer-to-peer
privileges, and so forth.
A report is generated on the infringing act,
including who was notified and how the situation was handled, and a log is
created at the monitoring
station. |
Thanks for the news, DamnedIfIknow. Please take a minute
and read the whole story over at C|Net, then give us your thoughts on this
matter.
Source: C|Net
