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I should note that while I don't agree with my money going towards the majority of P2P activities, there is nothing wrong with a student doing that (other than possible legal violations) if the school allows it.

HAY!!!!
Forgit yoe damb prejoodiss!! Them blocks has effrie riet the saem of yuo is have teh be on teh comppottres. I has frinds of block peepluls an thay is cool, an thay is alwase enabled teh uose of mien compottre. Your shoed be glads at thare is blocks in yoe sckoule. Raisisism is a suck!!!!

-SMITTY

SMITTY wrote:

HAY!!!!
Forgit yoe damb prejoodiss!! Them blocks has effrie riet the saem of yuo is have teh be on teh comppottres. I has frinds of block peepluls an thay is cool, an thay is alwase enabled teh uose of mien compottre. Your shoed be glads at thare is blocks in yoe sckoule. Raisisism is a suck!!!!

-SMITTY

I think that we can all learn a lesson from SMITTY.  Thanks again for your input buddy

Last edited by brendave (2005-10-03 11:12 am)

every time I come in here, I see the same thing. Damn you dyslexia.

At Virginia Tech they don't block anything. My roommie watches porn all day long, or atleast while I'm in class. He tries to cover it up when I come in the room, but I can tell by how fast he's clicking around with his mouse, plus he sits straight up really quickly...

Anyway, VT doesn't block BitTorrent or Kazaa, but if your uploads exceed 650 MB in a 24 hour period they cut your bandwidth in half for 24 hours. But not just YOUR bandwidth, your room's bandwidth, something my roommie also does that pissed me the freak off. If he downloads one more season of anime I'm going to kick his ass.

We also have blacks at VT.

Last edited by vaeaglesfan (2005-10-09 5:37 pm)

Here in Stirling Scotland they block a smurfload of stuff. Porn is definitely out, as well as online gaming, and some messengers and P2P. Some FTPs are blocked.

It sucks.

Congrats, you just got your post edited and this topic locked.

*sees the future*

I'm in HS - our school runs everything through state proxy servers which block sites by the bucket load.
They've also disabled google's cache and translate features as they are 'loopholes'.
However, they haven't disabled tunneling or port forwarding...

resedit wrote:

mo' ron wrote:

resedit wrote:

Some of them block bittorrent and other P2P apps.
It is amazing at public universities how much taxpayer money goes to students using the pipe for serving their music collections via P2P. Utterly amazing and disgusting.

Some universities have blocked it - interestingly enough, it seems to be more commonly blocked at private universities where the tax payer isn't ultimately footing the bill ...

At my college, internet access is an extra fee. It's subsidized by public money, but the students are practically paying for their internet connection, so they should be able to use it however they want.

If you pay for it - sure.
It is when the tax payer is paying that I have some issue.

You pay to go to college and uses it's resources how you see fit.

I don't think my college has any blocks set up, at least I haven't ran into any problems.

When I was in highschool, the blocks were horrible. The teacher blocked every game site we ever went too, as well as blocking words like Flash, Shockwave, Game, Arcade, ect. There were also things like Hotmail, and such that were blocked. The teacher incharge of this was also very lazy, so instead of blocking just the sites that we found with games he blocked the whole word. So there were a bunch of rediculous words that were blocked like Liquid (because of liquidgeneration). We were able to get around the blocks though on the macs at school because they had safari and Netscape, and only Internet Explorer had blocks. Yay Macs! Helping to rebel against authority.