Educause 2002: Digging Deep with P2P

Understanding Students' Media Habits
# Warren S. Arbogast, Founder & President, Boulder Management Group, LLC
# David Greenfield, Director, Student Technology, Illinois State University
# Alexandre M. Mateus, PhD Candidate, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
# Mark S. Walbert, Associate Vice President, Academic Information Technology, Illinois State University

Illinois state

20,265 students

How different today than 2005? Bigger problem today

What hasn't changed is that industry doesn't understand higher ed and vice versa

Digital Citizen Project

Mark: Not much literature, especially with data on what students are doing with p2p with numbers
--started a dialogue with RIAA, both sides learned
--worked with IRB since analyzing click stream, plus legal, provost, president

Surveyed incoming students -- what were their digital media habits; now they have 3 years of data
2008:
--97% of students watch movies/TV/video on computer
--93% mp3 player; 82% ipod
--where get music: iTunes, CDs, Limewire, downloading (iTunes growth over time)
--movies: DVD, YouTube, iTunes, internet, download
--P2P sware: limewire, facebook, myspace, aim (confusion over p2p)
Confusion over what is legal, what is p2p, how is p2p related to social network sites
--they don't want to purchase by subscription

Studied using packeteer and audible magic april 2007:
51% on campus detected p2p users
42% detected DATCoM users
each student transferred 6 copyrighted files per week
more than half of the students doing p2p transferred more than 5 titles per week
10% transferred more than 35 titles per week
--spread out across all demographics (gender, age, class year)

Audible Magic doesn't detect as much as Packeteer
--if traffic encrypted, can't detect if its p2p
--after a few weeks, it detected most people that transferred copyrighted content

DPI effective in detecting users over time -- useful for a tool to warn users
DPI is less effective if coupled with punishment
--misses encrypted traffic
--encryption available in most p2p clients -- don't motivate them to do it

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~peha/dimensions_of_piracy.pdf

What they did:

Pilot this spring with Audible Magic and a response system -- warning students if they were identified as exchanging p2p

Met with students, academic senate, legal counsel, president, provost -- in June, had four constraints (gen counsel raised questions about peering into pipe, president did not want students getting notices/subpoenas, concern over $$ -- spend it on wireless, classrooms, hiring freeze)

Accidentally left of packeteer for a period -- 7fold increase in outbound and 3fold increase in inbound

Aug 08 -- created a p2p permission form for resnet -- permission granted no questions asked
--targeting residence halls, wireless,
--not using packeteer b/c it was on the WAN (?)

students responded positively -- glad not to be turned over to riaa
faculty okay b/c not on academic network






http://www.digitalcitizen.ilstu.edu/