[1076] in resnet
Re: Stealth network hides within Kazaa...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mark ferguson)
Tue Apr 2 21:23:16 2002
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:15:23 -0500
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From: mark ferguson <ferguson@BUFFALO.EDU>
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If looking for liability, this seems like those "get paid for surfing the
web" schemes popular a while back like alladvantage where in the end the
student is guilty of violating any "thou shalt not use university
resources for commercial gain" items in your acceptable usage policy.
What if the student gets no 'compensation'?
Does it matter who gets the commercial gain for it to be naughty? (eg:
the student asks for no compensation, but the firm which purchases the
temporary use of this distributed CPU network uses it to make money).
--
Mark Ferguson
ferguson@buffalo.edu
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jeremy Mlazovsky wrote:
->
->In the article a company spokesman said that the user has to agree to the
->"hidden" P2P network's activation before it will work.
->
->Unfortunately, that means that they can argue that the users authorized the
->use of that bandwidth and thus they are not be liable.
->
->I like your thinking though :)
->
-> Steve Gilmore
->
->How nice of them to ask our students' permission to use our University's
->excess bandwidth.
->
->
->Looks like a ripe opportunity for higher education to file suit against a
->company for using resources without securing permission from someone
->actually authorized to grant it.
->
->
->Steve
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