WEAK!!!!!

yea this would suck...if only politicians were good at kissing ass AND knew how to turn on a computer...(they have the first one down pretty well)

My buddy cant play C0D4 for PS3 cause his school blocks P2P servers, and thats what Activision uses for PS3 CoD servers

thats ridiculous.

Wow lame!! oh well good thing i finished college back in 04 ha ha!

Your tax dollars at work. Want to really fix the government? Then the whole population should send a message by not paying taxes just once. Imagine the message the government would get if it couldn't finance it's wealth re-distrubution for a year! How could the IRS come after an ENTIRE population? Ah... pipe dreams....

@mowglicub: Ah...the day dreams are nice. Thanks.

The fact that the link to a page that is supposed to be about how congress made us happy recently is a 404 is just great.

I think I'll be living off-campus first chance I get.

wow this sucks, i have unlimited bandwidth at my school so when i download stuff, i usually go on a binge of 10 gigs at a time because i can download at 3 megs a second. If they start monitoring p2p i am screwed

Cable modems are like $40 a month, so for someone spending $20k a year or much more on college to complain is a little ridiculous. Just get a cable service or DSL and pay for it like everyone else. Colleges have the control because they provide it free for school work, not to download porn torrents or games, it's just not the deal.

@Hello_Newman: Uh schools don't let you get such things installed in the dorms and you pay a lot of money for the internet at school more than you would pay off campus most of the time and its not only for school work its used to attract students to the school just like all the other amenities they add to campus

Punctuation. It's your friend and mine.

is this just for p2p like torrents and stuff, or is it all media sharing, like rapidshare as well?

Umm...what about legit P2P uses? Are those filtered out also? Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Blizzard use P2P to do the patching for WoW?

Completely lame. Who do i get to kill (jk)if i lose aid because my school doesn't comply. I think for my next presentation in my public speaking class i should teach the class how to encrypt everything they do online and tunnel through the filtering. Charge students to use a proxy server in my house maybe? I wonder how much i could make off of that. Gimme five dollas/month and you can tunnel through my server and get all the torrents you want!

Nooooooo, I'm just a freshman in college. It's bad enough i only get very limited access on torrents and force to use the school's dc++. I can't even play online games with my psp.

I guess colleges are a source of entertainment now, rather than education.

I thought the goal was to walk away with new understandings of life and get a pretty piece of paper with your name on it... not reach level 42 win WoW, or win coolness points for having more torrent download traffic than any other guy in the dorm.
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I really don't see a problem with a college filtering its networks -- of course, if you are required to live on campus more than a year this may suck... but last I heard it is still legal to transfer to a different college.

My college already somehow completely blocks torrents and, to my knowledge, most P2P. It hasn't affected gaming at all, though, so I don't really mind. So long as they don't start actually blocking whole websites it won't be that bad.

@Hello_Newman:

see Kamenwati for pwnage.

@freelunch:

"I thought the goal was to walk away with new understandings of life and get a pretty piece of paper with your name on it"

No, it's now a way to get a salary better than 5 figures.

SWEET! Hopefully colleges will abide by this legislation, the price of attendance will skyrocket and society will collapse back to an agrarian state proving many of my theories in one swoop!
1.) The MPAA/RIAA will actually be the downfall of society and collapse from their own stupidity.
2.) A room full of lawyers is less intelligent than a rat (where do politicians get their start, think and it will make sense).
3.) Intellectual property laws need to be completely restructured in the US.

... yeah that would be just a little extreme.

Just remember folks, the RIAA and MPAA are here to protect you and the "artists" from piracy.

I was stunned when I went back to grad school and the network did no filtering at all - or monitoring. I could download all the torrents I wanted - at blazing speeds, and view all the porn I could find (which I only did for academic reasons, of course). Though I never did either on a school computer. Quite the surprise.

@freelunch: And I'll bet you never went to the on-campus bar to drink beer? Or watched TV in the Student Union?

Isn't that the guy from star wars? What's his name? the great emperor of the laser thingey robots.
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Brilliant.

Take the next generation of brilliant minds, give them a reason to be pissed off and a mix in a lot of time on their hands.

How long until Bit Torrent v2.0 is rolled out and how many fingers do the RIAA have in the dike now?

@NeoAkira: For most paths, I believe you need two pretty pieces of paper with your name if you want to have a salary better than 5 figures out of college.

VPN's and encryption FTW!