On Tue, May 12, 2009 13:37, Steven Fischer wrote: > This is a poor analogy on a lot of levels... > > The problem with P2P software on the college campus > > 1. legal concern - the transfer of copyrighted works across the college's > infrastructure without the college being able to track/police it. P2P has > legitimate purposes, but the risk of illegitimate use appear to outweigh > the > benefits of legitimate use in the eyes of the administrators and regents. > > 2. "fair" use concern - ensuring the resource is available to all students > for the purpose intended. I think we can all agree that the intended > purpose is NOT to provide lower-layer transport for P2P > software/protocols. > Some of these applications can act as denial of service agents, as the > bandwidth they consume is not trivial, and can deny use of the resource > for > the purpose for which it was intended. > > The resource belongs to the college, not to the students. As such, it is > up > to the perogative of the college (administrators, regents, etc) to > determine > the conditions under which students can use that resource. It appears > that > a student is taking issue with a specific set of rules and regulations > governing the use of the college's network resource. I appreciate that > indivuals concern, and would invite him, after the current semister, to > find a college where the rules and regulations governing the use of the > network resource provided by the college are more to his liking.
Yes, that all applies to the _use_ of the network resources. "My network, my rules." But again, merely having a particular software installed on a computer not owned by the organization without actually using it does not fall under the rules that govern the _use_ of network resources. So, again, I differentiate clearly between possession of a particular piece of software and the use of that software. -Joe
