To help combat RIAA citations for the college’s illegal downloading problem, a test to minimize illegal peer-to-peer activity ran and resulted in decreased Digital Millennium Copyright violations, according to Laura Seraichick, chief information officer of the Information Technology Group.
The objectives of the test, performed Thursday, Sept. 28, were to “minimize illegal P2P activity, decrease bandwidth consumption and decrease DMCA violations,” said Seraichick. DMCA violations had increased at the college since the fall semester began.
According to an Oct. 4 posting on MyKSC, the violations had decreased to 10 that week, and most were repeat offenders. As of Sept. 14 there were 45 violations and 88 the following week. As of Oct. 3 KSC had received 131 total violations involving students with approximately 80 percent first offenders, said Seraichick.
Beside a decrease in violations, bandwidth consumption decreased during the test, “but not enough to affect the performance of the network,” said Seraichick.
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