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North exas Daily
NT declines on i2hub
Howard Lowe
Daily Reporter
Hundreds of universities
around the country are joining
an Internet "revolution" that
NT is declining to be a part
of. University administrators
took pause after receiving an
invitation to join i2hub/ a net-
work where peer-to-peer file
sharing is available.
The hot button issue of
copyright infringement put a
damper on any plans to use
the service.
"The real issue and argu-
ment the companies are pre-
sented is the content being
exchanged, not that the sites
are running/' said Maurice
Leatherbury, associate vice
president for computing at
NT. "The course of rule today
is the sites are not illegal, but
it's the user."
Students from around
the country have started to
use the online organization
called i2hub. The intent of
the organization is to have a
student network available to
share information in an aca-
demic community.
The high-speed network
is run off Internet2 where a
variety of resources can be
exchanged for academic pur-
poses. About 300 universities
use Internet2 nationwide.
The Recording Industry As-
sociation of America (RIAA)
filed a new wave of lawsuits
against 450 students at 18 dif-
ferent Internet2-using college
campuses last week. Most of
the students had used i2hub
in the past to download music
and movie files.
An online conference was
held on April 13 with the
president of the RIAA, Cary
Sherman, and college editors
about the recent debate over
Internet2 and i2hub.
"Through the use of a file-
sharing application known
as i2hub, Internet2 is in-
creasingly becoming the net-
work of choice for students
seeking to steal copyrighted
songs and works on a mas-
sive scale," Sherman said
during the conference. "Stu-
dents who choose to engage
in this behavior should know
that they are not anonymous.
There are consequences for
unlawful uses of this special-
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Peer-to-peer networks are
not liable for the exchange of
copyrighted material; the user
is. Lawsuits against sites such
as Lime Wire are not for the
illegal trading of copyrighted
material, but for contributory
infringement, or knowing that
file-sharing tools are used for
illegal purposes.
Many students who are
part of i2hub know it is noto-
rious for the sharing of copy-
righted material.
"This is incriminating, but
I have used i2hub for pirating
software for my Mac, down-
loading music and movies,
textbooks and novels and lots
of free porn," said a student at
Duke University, who wishes
to remain anonymous due to
current lawsuits brought to
users from the school. "I also
use it as a way to distribute
my music. It is a good way for
self-promotion."
The direct charges to stu-
dents in these lawsuits are for
copyright infringement. The
minimum penalty is $750 per
work infringement. The RIAA
will settle cases for serious
downloaders on an average
range of $3,500 to $4,500.
According to Sherman,
these lawsuits are a way
to alert people about copy-
right infringement.
"A lot of our efforts are
designed to educate the pub-
lic and students in particular
that file-sharing without per-
mission is illegal and risky,"
Sherman said. "People who
continue to engage in illegal
uploading and downloading
after they've learned that
the use of i2hub on Internet2
for this purpose is illegal are
appropriate targets in future
rounds."
Waterway
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NT and the U.N. are try-
ing to emphasize that wa-
ter is a universally threat-
ened essential element,
and something needs to
be done about conserving
it. March 22 marked the
launching of the U.N.'s
"Water for Life decade."
The goal is to halve the
number of people without
safe drinking water and ba-
sic sanitation access by 2015.
2.6 billion people (half of the
developed world) live with-
out improved sanitation.
Back in Denton, keeping
water safe is also an issue.
Fish consumption is
banned in not only portions
of the Trinity River, but in
other nearby lakes. Accord-
ing to the Texas Parks and
Wildlife 2004-2005 Outdoor
Annual Hunting and Fish-
ing Regulations, following
their recommendation to
not to eat fish from the wa-
ters listed will "significantly
decrease health risks and
allow a maximum level of
protection for persons con-
suming fish from areas of
known contamination."
"Pesticides and other con-
taminants running off into
reservoirs affect the quality
of water," Dickson said.
In Texas alone, if water
conservation methods are
instilled, statistics show
that savings will be approx-
imately 2 million per acre/
feet by 2050.
TKO
from page 1
The tour's last event,
"Gibson Rock Off," relied
on applause from the au-
dience to determine who
displayed the best guitar
chops. Lewisville senior
Chad Wayne Wells gar-
nered the most praise from
the crowd, allowing him to
walk off with his backpack
and new Epiphone Les Paul
in hand.
" This was a spurt of the
moment thing for me, I've
NT Dallas
never really been in a rock
off before and for me to Win
is awesome," Wells said.
The TechKnow Overload
Tour packed up its treasure-
trove of goodies shortly after
the "Gibson rock off" and
headed to the next crowd of
eager young consumers.
"This was one of the bet-
ter crowds we've seen so far,
you guys [NT] have some
great people," said tour di-
rector Collin Cadogan.
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programs that can be devel-
oped and enhanced on the
campus. Programs such as
business, education, public
health services and technical
informational sciences will be
enhanced to add more classes
such accounting, teacher edu-
cation programs and public
administration courses.
Much of the news about
the future of NT Dallas has
students and faculty members
excited about the growth.
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