Does the campus have policies addressing peer-to-peer file sharing, virus software, and copyright?
To reduce threats to its network, its user community, and to the greater Internet community, Texas State filters all incoming network traffic for viral attachments and also blocks most peer-to-peer and other high-risk network transmissions from entering or leaving its network. Texas State maintains an enterprise license that allows current faculty, staff and students to install anti-virus software, and ongoing updates, on both their office and home computers. We strongly encourage all our network users to take advantage of this benefit, which is provided free of charge. Protecting copyright and intellectual rights is a responsibility Texas State takes very seriously. Accordingly, it is against Texas State policy for network users to illegally distribute or download copyrighted materials such as computer software, movies, or music. See UPPS 01.04.24, Policy on Copyrighted Software for more detail. Texas State and the users of its network have certain legal obligations with regard to fil
