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Georgia’s Valdosta State University is one of the first Universities in the United States to actively monitor the Internet habits of its students, and will start reporting students who use P2P software to the police, after handing going through the internal disciplinary process, even if it means some of its students could end up in jail.
Unfortunately, the system used by the University appears unable to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate use of P2P software, such as the various popular BitTorrent clients. So students downloading Linux ISOs via uTorrent, which should be quite common for Computer Science students, will be punished by the University. As to whether the police department appreciates having to deal with potentially many cases of innocent P2P usage, remains to be seen. And for this reason alone, the University may find its policy of reporting to police to be extremely impractical.
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Unfortunately, the system used by the University appears unable to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate use of P2P software, such as the various popular BitTorrent clients. So students downloading Linux ISOs via uTorrent, which should be quite common for Computer Science students, will be punished by the University. As to whether the police department appreciates having to deal with potentially many cases of innocent P2P usage, remains to be seen. And for this reason alone, the University may find its policy of reporting to police to be extremely impractical.
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