The fact that this seems to be an issue with professors as well as students (and one can assume you live on campus) means that something should be done about this, including but not limited to, resolutions from student and faculty government (assumg you do have an open and somewhat transparent student government) and petitions of appeal to trustees or even to other members of school administration. There is honestly no reason why so many of these services should be limited and blocked at the University level, especially when the blocked content borders on censorship.
As for slashdotters, don't be surprised that they're not answering your question, because it's a common theme to either ridicule the asked from question misunderstanding, or tell them they're asking for something wrong. Anybody telling you to "suck it up because it's free" probably hasn't lived on-campus for a long time, (and did before the internet was standard) and doesn't see the social and general importance of unrestricted internet (except to malware, and occasionally pornography) on college Campuses, especially those who claim that YouTube never has educational value.

No, I'm PRETTY sure he's asking about ways of protesting and getting this fixed, not about circumventing blocks in place...

And yet, you would be surprised at the number of professors who use YouTube videos in class because they're better than the VHS tapes and film strips they used to use, or just better quality of the same videos...

Hard to use it seriously when programs do not launch half the time, nor work for their intended purposes when they do (Amarok, I'm looking at you)

Don't forget those of us with University connections that don't let us torrent

Actually, I know that a Godzilla alert, unlike a test, would not set off the EAS at the radio station that i'm at present engineer of

Actually, you can put DRM Free ePubs onto your iPhone through iTunes, so DRM isn't mandatory on either device...

Believe it or not, they're also donating a lot of money to HaikuOS, because they want to move TuneTracker over to Haiku (I assume as the availability of BeOS compatible hardware dwindles)

The AC has it right, TuneTracker Systems on BeOS 5

Lately my primary computers have been the two at my college radio station.. BeOS, fuck yeah.

I've had heuristics tell me "i don't know what this is, i'm showing it to Microsoft is that okay?" but the only "false" positives have only been things named keygen.exe and once renamed, it found nothing wrong with (most) of them ;)

Go to your local Public or University Library, chances are they have a degausser as part of their book security system...

Then smash those fuckers with a hammer

Minecraft SMP Server, duh~

I've been under the impression instant cameras *ARE* still commercial available (notably the one that makes headshot stickers that had a period of popularity in the early 2000's)

As other posts have pointed out, the Wiimote uses a different method with the same technology (Horizontal clusters placed at top or bottom of the screen, as opposed to a top and side cluster), and the patent covers the method not the technology (which i believe predates both)