But really, everyone I know who uses DC++ connects only to the twofo.kicks-ass.net:4145 hub and downloads only copyrighted music and films. Surely that's where the vast majority of the traffic comes from. And if people, evening paying people, are going to break the law with the facilities provided ...

The key is that i'm fairly sure we're not allowed to get private internet connections installed in our rooms. So basically they're completely cutting off what we should legitimately be able to access, such as IRC (I know we can tunnel through one of the various machines outside of resnet but it's an...

If the hub only contains campus users, they will all be able to use an active connection to connect to everybody, no pissing about changing connection settings just to deal with specific users. This means a lot less load on the server (because it doesn't have to handle the searches so much).

Once I got in trouble with ITS and I was called in for a meeting with some security manager person. I argued my case as well as I could, but he read out part of the AUP that I couldn't argue against, so I gave up in the end. Then I got home and read the AUP again, the guy had actually changed the wo...

How about an external hub like twofo that only allows IP addresses in the campus range? It's outside of ITS control but would require a user to be on campus in order to access it, everyone inside the hub would also be able to use active connections because all the hub is doing is telling two interna...

From what I can see of the AUP (ie the one which is easy to find) hosting a DC++ hub is not a violation. It may be against the spirit of the AUP but it's not the same thing.