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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 05:38 AM EST |
> Once the MIT administrator(s) involved made the decision...
I had close contact with Network and Sysadmins at a University
I worked at. Some of them had been at the job up to twenty years.
A common complaint was that the faster networks and fancier
hardware and software were being choked by management
structures imposed from above, and by the ingenuity of the
new generation of downloaders.
Bit-torrent traffic was blocked except for a very small whitelist.
Multi-nic machines for parallel downloads had to be banned.
The rigidity of the MBA style checkbox ticker cannot accomodate
the flexibility inherent in consensus RFC style engineering.
There is a rise in real cybercrime, which means a real rise in
lawyers watching how networks are managed, even if they
don't understand. There was only one checkbox for Aaron,
the same one for the underbelly that includes script kiddies
and spam kings. No, I don't agree either. But once it became a
Federal Case there seemed to be no way MIT could back out.
See also Orin Kerr's Volokh Conspiracy Newspick Part 2
for some technical analysis of the law.
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