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- Mockylock, on 11/27/2007, -2/+95Colleges should "urge" MPAA to shove a fist in their ***** ass.
- iceman0113, on 11/27/2007, -1/+81Colleges are educational institutions, they have no obligation to listen or do what the MPAA says. Colleges should stick to what they do best and that is teach.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+39Now for the obligatory "***** the MPAA".
- MacEnvy, on 11/27/2007, -3/+24Spoken like someone who's never been to college.
- x083, on 11/27/2007, -2/+22MPAA = Facists, regardless if they win or lose, they still fail in the hearts and minds of the American people. Notice you never see any of them showing their face. The American people, let alone other people on the internet would more than likely tear them a new ***** one way or another, so they hide behind lawyers.
- randysouth, on 11/27/2007, -0/+19You know, the fastest way to distribute that software would be over file sharing networks :p
- JoeRandom, on 11/27/2007, -7/+26College networks are reasonably large and provide a reasonable number of services. Therefore one would hope that
1. Network admins have the skills to monitor traffic on their own networks without help.
2. Network admins wouldn't just install random ***** willy-nilly because someone said that it was teh roXX0r.
3. MPAA phails.
4. ???
5. Profit. - IHaveIssues, on 11/27/2007, -4/+22What's a conservative curriculum? Talking snakes and a big ark with dinosaurs?
- djetaine, on 11/27/2007, -0/+18is anyone else amused by the fact that the MPAA is actively supporting open-source, license/royalty free software?
- insomniac8400, on 11/27/2007, -1/+17I just can't understand this. Any college that starts filter music is going to be liable for anything illegal traversing their network. You can either let everything through and say traffic is the responsibility of the end user, or police the network and take all the liability. Who would want to be the network admin arrested as an accessory in a child porn ring for not blocking the child porn?
- RAEP, on 11/27/2007, -4/+20A cosmic jewish zombie who was his own father that can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
- shinythings, on 11/27/2007, -0/+16M-any
P-eople
A-re
A-ctively downloading - toastgodsupreme, on 11/27/2007, -1/+16What laws exactly are they breaking?
Networks don't "create copyright violations".
Many universities handle this stuff in house. For example, at IU, DMCA violation notices are handled internally. They cut off net access and require the student have their machine wiped (removing any infringing material in the process) and pass a DMCA online course before being allowed back online. A second violation results in permanent network access bannage. There's no need to involve the MPAA any further than that.
The MPAA simply wants names so they can sue. That's all. - Lionhart, on 11/27/2007, -0/+13Were you expecting them to pay for something?
- KunalHS, on 11/27/2007, -1/+13Does XUBUNTU allows this misuse / unauthorized / commercial use of their Operating system ?
- reversekilled, on 11/27/2007, -3/+14This article fails badly on the technical front. "the MPAA was asking universities to install a black box tool" - wrong, it's just a collection of open source utilities. (apache, ntop and snort). I also love how the author thinks that google will magically find all these pcs running the web server portion of the monitoring software.
- guinnessstout, on 11/27/2007, -0/+10This is really great of MPAA to educate University CIO's and CISO's and entire IT/IS departments on these secretive tools such as SNORT and ntop. It is very rare you will find a degree holding possibly CISSP certified IT professional working for a major US University to know what the tools are or how to deploy them in their environment.
/sarcasm - RAEP, on 11/27/2007, -1/+9Tucks Medicated Pads
http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/10433/200.jpg - dgendreau, on 11/27/2007, -0/+7I was taught science in college, and science is never about believing something because you are told. Everything must be proven through rigorous debate. Your blanket accusation against liberals ("believing everything we are told") is irrational. Is it possible that you are projecting your own insecurity about your beliefs onto liberals?
It is probable that you believe in a magical sky god that watches and judges everything you do, but you are skeptical when it comes to "wishy washy panzy biased liberal" concepts like Physics, Chemistry, Genetics, Biology, Mathematics, Cosmology, Geology, Anthropology, Linguistics, etc. etc. - MacParrot, on 11/27/2007, -1/+8The RIAA and MPAA are falling short in the logic department. The great experiment by EMI and now Universal with Amazon's music service and iTunes is beginning to bear fruit (no pun intended). Give people un-DRMed audio files at a reasonable price and even more music is purchased. No DRM means they can move it to any device capable of playing the file.
What the RIAA and MPAA don't want to admit is that their days are numbered. Hopefully the other music copyright holders will understand it's not a few "students" or "hairdressers" sharing music files via P2P that's the problem, it's the big pirating factories off the coast of China that's really costing them money. Going to digital downloads takes the wind out of the sail of the real pirates.
Most people can't be bothered with piracy and if given legal and relatively unencumbered methods of downloading the content they want, that's the method that most will choose. They literally drive people to piracy by making it a pain in the ass. Make it easy, at a cost that both sides can accept, and watch legal digital download sales explode.
I wonder what the lawyers from the RIAA and the MPAA will do once they exposed as the dinosaurs they are and I wonder who will care? - EnterDaMatrix, on 11/27/2007, -0/+6When I go to college I'm leaving a box at home for me to SSH through. This is ridiculous.
- kurtwinter, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7What's a tuck?
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5Maybe we need to help the MPAA by putting this great software on bittorrent so everyone can have it.
- zeromerk, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5Funny you should say that, because now universities are starting contracts to outsource their student ISP services. I've worked at one, and our department was tired of policing for the RIAA/MPAA. By contracting, they've avoided the legal responsibility for our broken system.
- bightchee, on 11/27/2007, -3/+8Ha ha ha... joke's on them, I'm using Ubuntu! Wait.... oh crap.....
- nkassi, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4they must be kidding. I hope the company that "packaged" this on the livecd charged them 50 millions dollards. What a joke.
- astrotrain, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4Shot through the heart, and the MPAA's to blame...it just gave ubuntu a bad name...
- caffeinelover, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4And do most/any universities that receive this kit (probably the largest) also run wide open inbound with every PC getting a public IP? I thought they would have implemented a firewall, NAT-router, or other type of filtering device say....8 - 10 year ago?
- JP42, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4I'm curious what percentage of people are pirating movies and music. What if it's more than 50%? Wouldn't this mean that in a democracy the population is therefore pro piracy? Wouldn't this also mean that a law against piracy is undemocratic?
Why can't we just vote on the whole issue and put it to rest? If the majority of the population is breaking a particular law then perhaps this law shouldn't exist. Especially one that is founded for corporations that would like to sue their customers into Bankruptcy.How many tax payer dollars are spent so that the MPAA and RIAA can remain profitable? We as tax payers don't care if they remain profitable so why should the governement? Let them fall and new corporations that know how to make a profit within the new system can spring up. - OnymousHero, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4As a libertarian I am disgusted by the actions of the **AA cartels. Disgusted, but not surprised. Remove the government protection of these cartels (in the form of copyright laws) and they will shrivel and die like the weeds they are
- SniperGX1, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3yes
- theratdotus, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3im loling
- CodedChaos, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3It's times like this that we can be thankful for iptables.
- superdog87, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3Why... Use there bandwidth and check it out.. Or download and delete. lol
Link to site: http://universitytoolkit.org/
Link to file: http://universitytoolkit.org/peerwatch-1.2-RC5.iso - icepickk55, on 11/27/2007, -3/+5isnt apache open sourced?....wait....so THEY can use any technology and program...just not us..
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Except that he got it from a motivational poster on 4chan.
- astrotrain, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Sites real slow.... Somethings smelling fishy... and its not the Red Light District in Amsterdam.
I would think a big MPAA Monopoly Site would be much faster to get their 'tools' out for cracking down on pirating, this sites slower then snail turds. - jheathupton, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3lol, that's a pretty funny take on christianity, and it's kinda true...
- BenBenMan, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2While we're making acronyms, how about a recursive one?
MPAA
People
Are
Asshats - Flanker, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2http://universitytoolkit.org/peerwatch-1.2-RC5.iso
Hmm...533 MB. I think I need to download this 40 or 50 times...just to make sure. - reeder, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2Funniest thing I've read or heard all day.
- Tenoq, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2Unless you're referring to global warming. In that case, there IS rigorous debate and plenty of rhetoric - even though the experiments have been done and the facts are there. :p
- AlanJV, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2The MPAA says that it doesn't check for content. Then why bother installing such a program? Pretty sure the admins have their own tools to simply monitor traffic. Me thinks they (MPAA) are are a bunch of liars.
- tech42er, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Science isn't rhetoric. Things are not proven through rigorous debate. They're proven experimentally. At least in theory.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1It is open source which means anyone CAN use it.
- razmig, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1how could they? i mean with the millions us diggers are costing them by downloading!
- Balinsky, on 11/27/2007, -2/+3From my gathered readings the MPAA doesnt understand the internet, computers, or the positive social implications of piracy (im flat broke im not buying your movie, would u rather me never watch it).
That bill is what scares me. Private interest groups already control the government. THat would give them indirect control of our last standing heaven for froward thinking.
My college (Hood College, Frederick MD) sold us out and turned of all BT traffic. Im a CS major. I use linux. wtf am i supposed to do? - superdog87, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1New download link: http://universitytoolkit.com/peerwatch-0.9.2.1.iso
- onefix, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1The law they are breaking is called CALEA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assist ...
In essence what it says is this...
If your network is "Public", you pretty much have to install "wiretapping devices" on your network.
If your network is "Private" (which all of the schools I know of have stated), then upon being given and IP and a date & time you have to be able to identify the person that was using that IP address.
If the school is in the US, they have to do this and while the MPAA might not be law enforcement, they can certainly get law enforcement involved.
It's not my law, but it's been required for about a year.
As a result, if a school continues to hide the identity of a student, then the institution can now be sued. - BSDaemon, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1Now the part that makes this the most awesome... is that the RIAA broke copyright laws with this software:
" Getting really ironic, they appear to have modified the files and distributed them without giving out the source or telling people how to get said source files.
The technical term for doing this to GPL'd software is copyright violation. This is because if you abide by the GPL, you have a license to the copyrighted work therein. If you do not abide by it, like the MPAA appears not to have done, then you are a copyright violator.
One of the copyright holders tried in vain to get them to listen, only getting the run around from clueless secretaries. He eventually had to, wait for the added irony, contact the MPAA's ISP to get the offending copyright violations removed. Tis to laugh.
The before and after shots show the MPAA did actually remove it, but the fact remains that as of now, they appear to have done some copyright infringement, and the source and changes are nowhere to be found. Unless they do soon, we can only assume they will be sending Matthew $738,098,331.24 per CD shipped, a fair and reasonable sum by their own standards."
Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/1 ... -
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