Fighting Piracy With P2P Blocking
John Borland,
ZD Net,
Feb 21, 2003
As this article notes, "the digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming's network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or 'Friends' episode." Of course, it may have also picked up academic papers, contracts, personal files and images, and more. File sharing extends far beyond music and video (though the respective industries may lead you to believe otherwise). What's at issue here is whether systems operators have the right to peek inside what is essentially personal traffic, and many people (including me) say that they don't.
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