The sad thing is how universities and organizations are caving in "just to be safe".
My college has every major p2p protocol blocked (well, MoreNET, the 'net provider, more specficially). I can't use Bittorrent, and it's pretty much moot trying to convince them to unblock it, even though it's probably used more for legit stuff than any other p2p protocol (although I used to use Limewire for sharing security docs).
I once, last semester, got accused for pirating music and/or movies. I also got told I was getting sued. The dean of men was just blowing things out of proportion, though. I wasn't getting sued, I just got "caught" trying to use p2p software (Funny thing is, I didn't even have 'net access for a week before I was "caught" - They failed to get 'net access working in my room for the first 5 weeks of the semester). Then they shut it down, and I had to talk to Comp Services about it.
I hate how they are targetting protocols.. Stifling one of the greatest means of bandwidth and server load reduction is NOT cool. I wonder how much money they'd be costing major sites that offer stuff like linux ISOs and such after getting bittorrent blocked by half a million service providers to unis, colleges, and other places.. Bandwidth is NOT cheap, still.
