Entries from September 2014 ↓

As the fall semester gets underway, I’m writing to remind you of the risks involved with illegal downloading and/or sharing of copyrighted music, movies, games and software over the Internet. Unauthorized obtaining, sharing or offering such copyrighted material is illegal and in violation of U.S. copyright law. If caught, you may face severe civil and criminal penalties, including prison and monetary damages. Anyone found to have infringed a copyrighted work may be liable for statutory damages of up to $30,000 for each work and, if found to be willful, that amount may be increased up to $150,000 for each work infringed. Movie and recording companies actively monitor the Internet to identify individuals who are illegally downloading and/or sharing movies and music via peer-to-peer networks.

ASU fully complies with Federal law and takes prompt action when notified that one of its students may be illegally downloading and/or sharing copyrighted material. University Policy 500-008, Unauthorized Downloading and File Sharing of Copyrighted Digital Materials, is located on the ASU Computing Services Website, at http://www.adams.edu/administration/computing/policies/policies.php. If caught, ASU penalties could include loss of access to the campus computer network, disciplinary action and in extreme cases, expulsion from the University.

You may think that the large movie or recording companies won’t bother prosecuting a single university-student downloading or sharing copyrighted material. Think again. Organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America are serious about protecting their copyrighted material. In 2009, a Boston University graduate student was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs. This comes out to $22,500, per incident, of copyright infringement. There are a number of online sources that provide legal alternatives for downloading or otherwise acquiring copyrighted material. A listing of many of these sites can be found at: http://www.educause.edu/legalcontent.

If you have specific questions regarding ASU’s Unauthorized Downloading and File Sharing Policy please contact the

ASU Computing Services Help Desk at 587-7741 or via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Thanks and have a great semester!

The following maintenance activities will take place tonight, Thursday September 18th:

Brief outages will occur for Staff Email, streaming media, Ellucian Go, and Banner AppXtender between 9 and 10pm.

Employee and Tec Classrooms will receive updates to Windows, Office, Adobe Air, Flash Firefox and LibreOffice beginning at 9:00 PM. Employees are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work today. This will assist the installation of these security patches and minimize any problems.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thank you!

Computing Services

The following maintenance activities will take place tonight, Thursday September 11^th:

Beginning at 5:00 PM and lasting roughly 45 minutes, the campus Ellucian GO Mobile app will be unavailable as we perform an upgrade to version 3.0. This upgrade includes a feature enhancement which will enable notifications of holds on accounts for students. If you are interested in getting the ASU Ellucian GO app, it is available on both the Apple store and Android Play store.

Beginning at 9:00 PM and lasting roughly 2 hours, ALL Banner services will be down including Forms, Banner Web and Self-Service for an upgrade. This maintenance is required to bring us into compliance with several Federal mandates.

Also beginning at 9:00 PM and lasting roughly 2 hours, streaming.adams.edu will be down for a storage upgrade. Impact to our students should be minimal, however, videos in Blackboard that are located on this server will be unavailable at this time.

Lastly, employee and Tec Classrooms will receive updates to Adobe Flash, Thunderbird, Firefox, MS Office and Windows, LibreOffice and VLC Media Player beginning at 9:00 PM. Users are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work today. This will assist the installation of these security patches and minimize any user impact.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thank you!

Computing Services