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Post by Tara on Apr 24, 2005 13:01:22 GMT -5
I recently heard that college students are being targeted here in the U.S. It's been a while since I've heard that so I'm not sure if they're still trying to do that.
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Post by littlepea on Apr 25, 2005 12:17:37 GMT -5
seems a bit pointless targeting students seeing as they are all in serious amounts of debt (especially american students)
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Post by Tara on Apr 25, 2005 17:59:53 GMT -5
I think it's b/c us young folk are stereotypically the ones always listening to music I guess.
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Post by moonchain on Apr 27, 2005 15:47:18 GMT -5
Well, it was a college student who first developed Napster. Plus, college-age people are a lot more technologically savvy. Many are able to become great upload hubs by using the enormous bandwidth and memory allowed by most universities. I remember that it was a problem 3 or 4 year ago at my old alma mater. They eventually had to put up firewalls and seriously decrease the amount of information you could send to your fellow students. They weren't arresting anyone the year I left, but they had cracked down so much on our internet usage that it was impossible to get too many mp3 files without just leaving your computer on for a few days.
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Post by Tara on Apr 27, 2005 17:15:05 GMT -5
Goodness! That must have been annoying!
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Post by littlepea on Apr 28, 2005 7:57:02 GMT -5
last year i stayed in halls of residence and they had 100Mb/s broadband, which was awesome, except they had firewalls and proxies and stuff set up so you couldn't use download programs like kazaa or edonkey or anything. i hadn't discovered bittorrent at that time but i don't think that would have worked either.
fortunately some people had massive amounts of stuff on their computers (thousands of films, tv shows, music) and they could set up internal ftps (somehow) and we got loads of stuff off that (transferring at 100 Mb/s). they shut down the best ones after a while, but if you searched around the remaining ones you could find everything you needed.
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