March 9, 2007
U. of Florida Tool Automatically Unplugs Students Engaging in Internet Piracy
Now that the Recording Industry Association of America's list of colleges and universities with file-sharing issues has received plenty of news coverage, it might be worth taking another look at a program that the trade group has promoted as an antipiracy tool.
The University of Florida has developed a program called cGrid that automatically kicks students off the Internet if they are caught connecting to peer-to-peer networks. The software, originally known as Icarus, was developed
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