An Anecdote on Pirating Music

I was a student at the University of Delaware, and like any student, I wanted to boast the most extensive media library of MP3s and movies. I downloaded Kazaa and let it run all day, with a queue of hundreds of media files. After a couple weeks, I couldn't connect to Kazaa, let alone the Internet, from my dorm. My network connection was disabled...

I was outraged. After all, for every second that passed, I could have been downloading another few megabits of the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I called the IT department only to find out that they disabled my account as per a certain motion picture group...Not because I downloaded copyrighted files but because I was uploading copyrighted files to thousands of other users. Kazaa apparently, by default, allows unlimited users to download off of a node computer. UDel also stuck me with a fine -- err -- a mandatory "computer cleaning fee" of $90.

To this day, I can honestly say that I no longer upload copyrighted files to other users.

Lesson learned!

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