Can I use Peer-to-Peer programs on ResNet?
Unfortunately the vast majority of material distributed over Peer-to-Peer networks is copyrighted and users do not have a license to use it. Information Systems Services does receive complaints about Copyright License violators on Campus, including ResNet, and do pass these reports on to the deanery, who may decide to take further action in the form of fines or similar. Please note that Copyright Violation is a civil and criminal offence under UK law, which you have agreed not to break on several different documents you have signed with the University. In the event that ISS recieve too many Copyright Complaints as a result of Peer-to-Peer use the pilot service that has been put in place to help make many other requested applications work on ResNet may be scaled back or removed. From a technical perspective, Peer-to-Peer applications are extremely destructive to the networks on which they run (hence why most commercial ISPs these days are implementing rate limiting and/or bandwidth limi
Unfortunately the vast majority of material distributed over Peer-to-Peer networks is copyrighted and users do not have a license to use it. Information Systems Services does receive complaints about Copyright License violators on Campus, including ResNet, and do pass these reports on to the deanery, who may decide to take further action in the form of fines or similar. Please note that Copyright Violation is a civil and criminal offence under UK law, which you have agreed not to break on several different documents you have signed with the University. In the event that ISS recieve too many Copyright Complaints as a result of Peer-to-Peer use the NAT service that has been put in place to help make many other requested applications work on ResNet may be scaled back or removed. From a technical perspective, Peer-to-Peer applications are extremely destructive to the networks on which they run (hence why most commercial ISPs these days are implementing rate limiting and/or bandwidth limits
