--- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:40:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@private> Reply-To: joehall@private To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>, Dave Farber <dave@private> Subject: Florida Dorms Lock Out P2P Users Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310030837360.17932-100000@private> Declan, Dave... presumably legitimate p2p users are being locked out as well. They do exist. -Joe http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60613,00.html --- Florida Dorms Lock Out P2P Users By Katie Dean 02:00 AM Oct. 03, 2003 PT The University of Florida has developed a tool to help extricate the school from the morass of peer-to-peer file trading, and early results show that it's succeeding. Integrated Computer Application for Recognizing User Services, commonly called Icarus, debuted over the summer on the network that links all the residence halls on the UF campus. The open-source program was developed by campus programmers to cut off the file sharing going on among students. Housing officials say the application educates students as it restricts them from peer-to-peer services. Last spring, the university received about 40 notices of copyright violations per month. At peak file-trading periods, 90 percent of the traffic on the housing network was peer-to-peer. In an average 24-hour period, 3,500 of the 7,500 students in the residence halls would use P2P services like Kazaa. "We needed something to stem the flow. We were spending too much time tracking people down," said Robert Bird, supervisor of network services for the UF department of housing. "There were too many of them and too few of us." Enter Icarus. "Icarus has detected about 300 people using P2P this fall," Bird said. "That's an over 90 percent drop in people using P2P. That's a dramatic reduction in user behavior." [...] Copyright 2003, Lycos, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Graduate Student http://pobox.com/~joehall "I am sitting in an Internet cafe surrounded by 13-year-old boys looking at porn. It's f**cking sad. On the plus side, porn is really a great way to teach young boys about how to manejar una computadora and how to use the Internet. They even are learning some English in the process..." --Richard Hall, Peace Corps volunteer in Panama. EFF petition against RIAA mass litigation: http://tinyurl.com/nlib _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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