Copyright Infringement

Bridgewater State Univeristy blocks all Peer to Peer (P2P) traffic. Students will be unable to utilize applications such as Limewire, BitTorrent, Gnutella among others. Downloading copyrighted material is illegal. BSU maintains a strict compliance with the HEOA Regulations found here: www.educause.edu

Legal Sources

Although BSU doesn't allow P2P, we do allow students to use other legal downloading resources.Services such as Netflix and Pandora allow you to stream media at a reasonable cost. Also, applications such as iTunes and Rhapsody are viable means of downloading media. The link below provides you with an up to date list of legal downloading resources.
Other Legal Sources

Last Modified: August 23, 2010