[IP] more on Ohio University announces changes in file-sharing policies

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Date: April 26, 2007 1:33:20 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Ohio University announces changes in file- 
sharing policies

At 09:22 AM 4/26/2007, David Reed wrote:

> It would be interesting to know whether Ohio University, an agency of
> the state, is inspecting the content of packets being sent between
> ordinary citizens in its enforcement activities in this regard.

Any facilities-based Internet provider -- public or private -- is
required by CALEA to be able to monitor traffic. And any responsible
ISP should be able to monitor his or her network for abuse. Media
piracy software (sometimes called "P2P" software by people who wish
to conflate it with legitimate software that operates in a peer to
peer mode) abuses the network, often without the consent of the user
who installed it. Universities have the right, and in fact an  
obligation,
to prohibit crimes on campus. And any ISP -- especially a University,
where much network abuse occurs -- is therefore fully within its rights
to prohibit abuse of the network.

--Brett Glass



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