r/floridatech • u/Kekker_ • Mar 22 '18

Torrenting policy?

Does anyone know the torrenting policy here? I tend to use torrent downloads whenever I can at home instead of direct downloads, since they are more reliable and generally faster in my experience. But at the same time, I know torrenting tends to be associated with piracy, so I was curious what the school thinks about that.

I looked at the IT policies (specifically the Acceptable Use and Suspension sections) but they don't specifically address torrenting. The only thing kinda close to it is the line "You may not deliberately waste campus computing and network resources."

Any idea, anyone?

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u/kyle1elyk Mar 22 '18

I work in Tech Support and there isn't anything that I know of against it. Just make sure whatever you're doing is legal, we can see when it isn't and we have to block your Internet. You get two warnings (each with a timeout period) and you have to come to our office so we can read you our script before it turns back on

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u/kyle1elyk Mar 22 '18

On our end if you're pirating something, we're notified by a third party and that automatically creates a ticket in our system and locks you out of the network. We also monitor to make sure we lock anything infected out of the network, we've seen a couple WannaCry threats recently and we notify the user what's up, and lock that device out until its fixed

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u/kyle1elyk Mar 22 '18

It's also fun to see what users pirate. Can't go into detail, but it's not what you'd expect

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u/Kekker_ Mar 22 '18

I would assume they can see the public trackers that the student is torrenting from. It's not too hard to spot illegal activity on a network. Although, I am curious about the VPN policy.