AlphaCore 1.0 torrent/mirror available

[Hoover, Tony]

No need to disable any of the services you mention.  Students can't run
servers in the dorms, so traffic is one-way, and non-saturating.  With P2P,
outgoing numbers typically exceed incoming numbers causing bandwidth to be
saturated, even without someone on campus actively doing anything. 

The reduction of take-down notices was a pleasant side effect, not having to
continually purchase more bandwidth was the original purpose of the filter.


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-----Original Message-----
From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Maurice Hilarius
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:48 PM
To: Linux on Alpha processors
Subject: Re: AlphaCore 1.0 torrent/mirror available

Hoover, Tony wrote:

>I not only accept that policy, but support it.  Web browsing, FTP
transfers,
>video conferencing, etc. all run much better when students in the dorms
>aren't saturating our I1 and I2 bandwidth with music/movie downloads.  Also
>our RIAA/MPAA/DMCA takedown notices have dropped to almost nil.
>  
>

 From a pragmatic point of view I suppose it has attractions, as you stated.
But P2P is also the most effective way to distribute large files, in a 
legitimate use and fashion.

If students were trading songs on ftp servers would you also advocate 
disabling ftp services campus wide as well?
How about HTML? Email?
Because that is being used, I can assure you.

Once you open that box it is hard to close.



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