Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
NewsScan is citing a Wall Street Journal article (which I won't link to, since a subscription is required) describing the increasing use of anti-downloading tactics on university campuses. What's interesting is the take: "We're not content police. We're bandwidth police," says UNLV associate provost Lori Temple. "We make it so downloading music is a horrible idea." Using software that detects the use of peer-to-peer software by scanning network traffic, administrators respond by cutting off internet access for a period of time. Guess they'll have to go back to using IRC to locate and download content... or (as is inevitable) breaking the music files into chunks disguised as web pages.

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