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#1 Neon

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Posted 16 November 2005 - 10:06 AM

A file-swapping network popular with US students that used a superfast internet research network has closed down.
It follows repeated legal pressure from the entertainment industry.

The i2Hub network took advantage of the Internet2 research network which connects some 207 US universities.

Earlier this year, the Motion Picture Association of America said users had swapped films amounting to 99 terabytes in a single day, the equivalent of an entire video rental store.

Our video stores here are dark, little shops :)

#2 clarky3429

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Posted 16 November 2005 - 10:45 AM

that is a HECK OF A LOT of data!!! :S

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Posted 16 November 2005 - 02:28 PM

99 terabytes... WOW, wish I had that kind of downloading power to get HALF of that in a day :)

#4 RedInferno

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Posted 16 November 2005 - 05:23 PM

I can see why the media wanted it closed......because of karl and his piracy :)

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Posted 16 November 2005 - 06:16 PM

No, they're just upset that THEY didn't get to d/l movies too :)

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Posted 17 November 2005 - 05:51 AM

Geez~ thats just unreal! The students deserve to be punished anyway for doing that on Internet2 . Universities will likely discipline them

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Posted 17 November 2005 - 08:08 AM

THey shut down the Internet 2 ? THATS INSANE >_<




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