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Slashdot has a pretty heated discussion thread happening today after this recent post:

“Today I received a letter from my university’s network administration advising me that my network access would be terminated due to ‘illegal P2P activity.’ The P2P activity that the e-mail cited was BitTorrent and the file being transferred was an update to the Azureus BitTorrent client. The letter stated, ‘Until the courts decide that student P2P activity is permitted we will continue to block this activity on our network,’ implying that BitTorrent is inherently illegal. It seems such misunderstandings are common, but it is particularly frustrating when coming from people in the IT field. How can a student respond to such an accusation in order to defend the validity of BitTorrent and continue to benefit from its legitimate uses?”

It’s amazing to read some people answers to this, and comical to hear them defend themselves and others, to me it’s all politics. And like politics, I know little, I know my role & and I stray clear of heated discusssion because I find it more interesting that way

In my opinion, an encrypted version on sourceforge, this debate is just asking to get worse.