Re:Use Google's cached version... (Score 1)

hit the cache or use a prox - lists available at http://www.astalavista.com/en/proxies.asp All a school can do is make it harder for people to access the stuff. Keep the pricked out liberal arts majors off the internet anyway. I mean figure any "admin" at a school has to be about the bottom of the barel as far as technical people go. Most Admins are going to do things like map out the DNS for napster to go to their internal page that sayes "no no no, you bad student" in witch case you type in 64.124.41.35 into your little browser instead...or better yet edit your own hosts file so you never do a DNS look for it. They probably don't know how to implement a packet analysed detour. Figure the conversation between the "Admin" and the president of the school as something like this...damn, I'z aint gots no bandwith. Themz sudentz be suck'n it all...logz show that napster is generating all the traffic" (Prez speekz) well, I heard on CNN that napster is a bad bandwidth sucking illeagal thingy...is there a way we can stop the students from doing this...(Lazy "Admin") yes I'll stop it. It's more about the fact that the "admin" has better things to do than spend 2 hours implementing a solution when a 10 second solution gets him his result. E-Mail the dude and ask him why. There was an erlier comment on links to the DECSS software being illegal. NO son LINKS to the software are NOT illegal. It was debated in the case however the judge somehow upheld the word of the constitution and links ARE alowable. Now for people saying is it illegal for an organization to aid in an illegal activity. The federal RECO act says that yes if an organisation is involved in the act of aiding "malicious activities" it can be held liable for the activities at a rate of three times the actual damages. Presidence of this is a web site that showed the pictures of Dr that performed abortions. One of these Dr was killed. The web site (operated by a churchy organization) was sued big time for wrongfull death. Needless to say the record companies would present lost sales historical data that would crush the pocket book of napster...but that's what backruptcy is for. It will start again in a different contry so what's the real point except for a bunch of lawers stroking it up.