Comments on: MPAA Wants Colleges to Install its ‘Toolkit’ to Help Them Monitor File-Sharing Traffic

By: axlman

axlman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Sure…It does not communicate any information to the MPAA/RIAA..Riiiiiiiiiiiiight!

By: axlman

axlman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

“It’s certainly not a tool intended for us to come and inspect [university networks] without permission”
So what the true meaning of that statement is is: It’s really a tool that WILL log the information that we want and need but we’ll only use that info if we have permission of which if you don’t give us that permission we will take you to court and force you to let us look at the logs!

What idiots! A network admin does not need a tool provided by MPAA/RIAA to show a graph of bandwidth usage. There are other free programs that can do that!

By: iamyour41

iamyour41 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Who the hell cares what students are and aren’t doing on the network? Their tuition well covers internet usage.. and it’s not like universities pay by bandwidth consumption. Also no IT admin needs a stupid program from the MPAA/RIAA to see usage. I’m surprised these colleges haven’t told the MPAA and RIAA to blow it out their ass. Besides they have record breaking profits.. why the hell are they worried about people downloading movies and music? Most of the times those people word of mouth it to everyone else besides the people who download it usually won’t buy it anyway. I personally wouldn’t listen to any of the music I do if I had to buy it and couldn’t download or listen on myspace. There are few and far between movies and songs I want to buy. But when they come along I do buy them… even though I know I can download them.

By: colombianino

colombianino — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

as always they wanna stop the unstopabble and again if they start messing with the isp’s then theres gonna be WAR!!!! everyone is gonna have “their own isp”……….only a possibility
and again they got more traffic in their own computers trying to “find us” than we can imagine………they are trying to make “better” what could get even worse..
my advice would only be to change ports for torrent clients

By: Burd

Burd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

axlman is correct. Any ITD department worth its existence already can do all this WITHOUT involving any outside intrusion. As a matter of fact it would be downright irresponsible to use this software.

As much complaining that we might do about our ITD Department they are just not this stupid!

By: axlman

axlman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Hell I’m and IT Field Tech myself and we use Sonicwall Firewalls in our company Although we do lock down the internet we still log all incoming and outgoing traffic as well as websites visited and what username was used to access the internet!

By: SeaPlankton

SeaPlankton — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

What’s that logo? It looks like a mechanical squashed knacker. I know what happened…In a future war between man and machine a brave scientist whipped of the googlies of a large ‘bot. Right Rorschach test passed. Extra chocolate pudding after tablets!