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Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Monday, November 05, 2001

http://www.bowdoin.edu/studorgs/orient/2001-10-26/news01.htm

Students stymied by copyright violations
JAMES FISHER, ORIENT STAFF

Computing and Information Services administrators have disabled the on-campus ethernet ports of several students in recent weeks at the behest of Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. For senior Eric Morin, the semester was only a few days old when "one day, I woke up and tried to use my Internet, and it wasn't on." Morin and a roommate checked some settings on his computer and then spoke to some friends who worked for Computing and Information Services; they did not have an easy explanation. NetPD, a company that monitors file-sharing networks on behalf of media companies, had spotted Morin's Internet activity....

 


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