"... Missouri S&T’s unusual method of regulating students’ network usage: In order to download (or upload) files on any peer-to-peer network whatsoever, all on-campus users have to pass an online quiz on copyright infringement."
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/05/15/p2p"I actually attend Missouri S&T and was responsible for two of the DMCA notices last year. After spending an entire school year with the new traffic shaping, I can honestly say that it really doesn’t interfere with day to day life on the net. It has slowed the rate at which I download copyrighted works, but because of the reduced P2P load on the network, I have the bandwidth to watch TV shows (most of what I was downloading before) streamed from approved vendors, something I was unable to do before. The privacy issue of traffic shaping is still a concern to me, but in terms of day to day use of the network, it is largely unaffected by the filter."
"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students."
"The European Archive is a digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. We provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
"World Wide Web access to Library of Congress
"... Missouri S&T’s unusual method of regulating students’ network usage: In order to download (or upload) files on any peer-to-peer network whatsoever, all on-campus users have to pass an online quiz on copyright infringement."
