Spy vs Don't Spy

November 13, 2002

RIAA to colleges: P2P is evil, take a look at it

EPIC to colleges: Do you really want to spy on your students?

While network monitoring is appropriate for certain purposes such as security and bandwidth management, the surveillance of individuals' Internet communications implicates important rights, and raises questions about the appropriate role of higher education institutions in policing private behavior.

Colleges: we'll kick some students offline for distributing copyrighted material, but we need to come up with a better policy