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Reply Comments to the FCC on Broadband Industry Practices (Docket 07-52) July 16, 2007

ckeller — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:52:54 -0500

This document is a reply to a comment filed by NBC Universal requesting that the FCC require that broadband providers “use readily available means to prevent the use of their broadband networks to transfer pirated content.” EDUCAUSE signed the document along with 10 other public interest organizations to express their concern for this inappropriate and misguided use of available bandwidth management tools.

The Role of Technology in Reducing Illegal Filesharing: A University Perspective

ckeller — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:40:34 -0500

Recently members of the House Science and Technology Committee heard from university officials and a leading technology expert on different methods to reduce illegal filesharing on campus internet systems. This hearing site includes written testimony and a webcast of the hearing

Oversight Hearing on "Reducing Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Piracy on University Campuses: A Progress Update."

drupal — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:32:02 -0500

Recently, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held a hearing entitled "Reducing Peer-to-Peer Piracy on University Campuses: A Progress Update." Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) began the hearing by announcing that he and Ranking Member Howard Berman (D-Calif.) would be requesting a study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on how well each U.S. campus was curtailing illegal file sharing, asking that the GAO "assign a grade" to each institution. Daniel Updegrove, CIO of the University of Texas at Austin, testified that a program of bandwidth limitation, education, and enforcement had significantly reduced the problem of unauthorized file sharing at his university. Norvert Dunkel, director of housing at the University of Florida, talked about a system developed at Florida called Icarus, which automatically disconnects students from the campus network when they connect to P2P services. Concerns were raised by other witnesses, however, that file-sharing activity was moving to campus intranets and to the Internet2 network.