Real threats against free speach

[Lune]

Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In college my roommate and I had access to a 15 meg up/down line.

We pulled 14.98 megs/s 24 hours a day 7 days a week for about two and half solid months before the school administration caught up with us. They let us know we were using 100% of the schools bandwidth nonstop, and that a criminal investigation would commence and that the state had been notified. They showed us our data usage, which we were even surprised by, and demanded we surrender the MAC addresses they were accusing immediately.

All 5 computers/servers were seized with about 20 HDs, even our 3rd roommate's computer who had nothing to do with it. And we were removed/banned from campus for the year with the option to appeal for housing privileges next year pending the outcome of a criminal investigation by the state.

In judicial, my friend retorted "This is bullshit!" after the charges were laid out. Yeah that didn't go over well in addition to having me falsely testify as an un-involved 3rd party.

Holy shit lol what a load of horseshit. Those assholes.

When I was in college me and my roommates torrented constantly. Nothing happened until we got caught torrenting The Hangover, and all the ISP did was shut off our internet and make us promise to stop torrenting when we called them to have it turned back on. Pretty sure we were already starting new torrents while still on the phone with them. Then again, we weren't in the dorms using campus internet.

[AzzarTheGod]

We learned that using internet bandwidth is very serious business. This was in 2003. The beards in the Residence Connectivity dept (ResCon) were the type of guys who couldn't get a real gig, probably alumni.

IT sounded the alarm. And just our luck it was to this quintessential neo-feminist. She was net-stupid without a clue, and these older pasty beards with permanent frowns had sold her a conspiracy to rape and pillage all the bandwidth and download the worlds intellectual property. It was a hanging jury.

What had actually happened was this 0 Day group that my friend gave admin on his PC one night during an IRC chat, decided to use our local network as a dump after they recognized the service provider was not residential. My friend had told him "yeah as long as I'm getting good movies to watch I don't care" lol not realizing what a dump actually meant. Not exactly a few movies..