[473] in resnet
Re: Keeping traffic internal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hsu, Mike)
Sat Dec 1 00:56:11 2001
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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 21:52:10 -0800
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From: "Hsu, Mike" <mhsu@HOUSING.UCR.EDU>
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Very interesting yet very dangerous. Though it seems a bit
counterproductive and hypocritical to me.
"Students and all other Stanford community users are required to comply with
our computer usage policy that prohibits unauthorized copying of copyrighted
materials,"
Everybody knows exactly what gnutella is used for and it sure ain't for
sharing non-copyrighted material. Stanford, by putting up this gnutella
server, is in essence condoning the acts of "unauthorized copying of
copyrighted materials."
The solution that stanford university is presenting is not a solution at
all. In ResNet we need to stop thinking short term solution and start
thinking long term solution. Gnutella server = short term time bomb.
NAT/Trafficshaping = longer term solution. Oh yeah and Education to
residents != solution. A lot of people have been using packeteer
successfully, why isn't stanford doing something like that instead of
putting up a server? They don't even need to buy packeteer. Packeteer does
what any cisco router can do.
Also how does a solution such as stanford's affect other resnets when
students from other universitys hear about it? "Stanford allows and
condones filesharing, what's up with my resnet capping kazaa and gnutella to
5mbit a sec?" I think it brings ResNet as a whole down one notch. Am I
angry? no. Am I annoyed? yes.
Just my two cents,
Michael Hsu
ResNet Computing
UC Riverside
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan North Martin [mailto:stan_martin@NCSU.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:19 AM
> To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: Keeping traffic internal
>
>
> How many other campuses have set up their own Gnutella
> servers in an effort
> to keep more traffic off of the commodity Internet?
>
> Ethan, Rich and company at Stanford's ResComp have apparently
> done that:
> http://daily.stanford.edu/daily/servlet/Story?id=7139§ion=
News&date=11-28-2001
(The article was noted in the Chronicle of Higher Ed's Technology web
section.)
Any comments guys on how it's working out?
Stan
Stan North Martin stan_martin@ncsu.edu
ResNet Coordinator, Information Technology (919) 515-1348
North Carolina State University http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet
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