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RIAA targets....College Students....I think we should form our own minority and lash back at the oppression the man is putting on us. WHO'S WITH ME!!!!
PostPosted:Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:15 am
by Imakeholesinu
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>RIAA targets....College Students....I think we should form our own minority and lash back at the oppression the man is putting on us. WHO'S WITH ME!!!!</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 28, 2003 10:30 am
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Or you could just donate to the EFF.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:35 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Penn State is going after music/warez sharers on its own, but mostly it's the assholes that use Direct Connect to circumvent the weekly bandwidth cap-- good riddens!</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:26 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>DC doesn't suck. Your weekly bandwidth cap sucks.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:40 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>no, see DC sucks ass because the bandwidth caps are NECESSARY so the network doesn't go to shit. I couldn't do anything online in the afternoons/evenings at the height of the DC fiasco</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:41 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>plus there are only rare cases when you could Legally use over 1.5gig upload and 1.5gig download of bandwidth in a week.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:31 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Bandwidth caps are the network administrator's responsibility, not the end user.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:44 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It's a finite resource. I woudldn't like it, but rationing it may be the only way to ensure everyone can use it.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jul 29, 2003 6:01 am
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>right, and this is how they keep the network from crashing under it's own weight. I've never really had a problem with the limit myself, DC gets around it because the host was in the psu.edu domain and therefore exempt from all bandwidth charges</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:59 am
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>So a guy was hosting a DC server inside the network, and other network users were hitting it?</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:49 pm
by Sephy
<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Ridiculous claim. I hit this in a day or two, legally, easy.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:21 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>yup-- it was its own private PSU Warez P2P Service. It circumvented the bandwidth cap so they could leave it on 24/7 and drain the network</div>