[ale] (OT) schools and filesharing

nick travis linuxnews at wormfishin.com
Mon Nov 3 08:15:38 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:01, Geoffrey wrote:
> nick travis wrote:
> > Do you mean personal hardware?  I'm a student at KSU and I haven't heard
> > of this policy.  Is it posted somewhere?
> 
> I wouldn't think that the school could confiscate your personal 
> hardware, but then, you don't have to worry about that since you're not 
> breaking the rules, right? ;)

I wasn't worried about my hardware, I was just surprised that they could
take your personal hardware.  
> 
> Personally, I'd worry more about being expelled then even losing my 
> personal hardware.  'Educational bankruptcy' will cost you more then the 
> lost of hardware...
I'm too close to graduating to risk anything that could get me kicked
out.  Although I know a few people who would be pretty interested in
knowing about this.

> 
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 16:54, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > 
> >>The policy dictated from above to the students here at KSU is that they 
> >>better not be found downloading or uploading illegally acquired 
> >>copyrighted data (interpret video/music).  Loss of your connectivity and 
> >>possibly hardware could result, not to mention getting expelled.


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