Submitted by: Mortimer Snerd
Source: news.cnet.com
Campus police confiscated an Oklahoma State University student's computer after the Recording Industry Association of America notified the school that a person on campus was allegedly distributing copyrighted material. |
The 19-year-old's computer system--including monitor, keyboard, two CD burners, scanner and printer--was removed earlier this month from his dorm room after campus police determined he was operating an FTP server site that allowed visitors to download MP3 music files and even several full-length movies.
The seized computer gear included 105 gigabytes of hard drive space, of which about 40GB were made available to visitors. Assuming the average music file occupies about 4MB, the student could have had approximately 10,000 songs available for download.
Don't try this at school...
