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[ian]

Students on campuses around the US are having increasing success in dealing with groups such as the RIAA and MPAA, and the frivolous, and often perjurous lawsuits that they send. It is very disturbing then, for a graduate student at the University of Northern Colorado (UNCO) to be targeted by his own university.

http://torrentfreak.com/university-raids-grad-student-071025/

 

Even though the school's argument is just, they went about it the wrong way.

[Singer]

hmm, that guy basically breaking into the grad student's office is a bit fishy, even though they say it's school property.

[Chris]

It doesn't surprise me that they shut it down but why not just ban his ip from the internet. I know at Rutgers if you upload more than a certain amount they automatically suspend you're account for a week instead of going into your room and taking you network hub. He was still using a very large amount of bandwidth (33%), but they should have just disable his internet connection and sent him an email or something.