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You have certain very important and specific personal responsibilities
under the University's Computer and Acceptable Use
Policy.
You are responsible for what you do on the network. As a member
of the Columbia community, you have access to the Internet
and World Wide Web—from a departmental or personal computer
or your CUNIX and e-mail account. We hope that you will take
advantage of this privilege, but please remember that you
are responsible for what you do—whether using the Web
to read or publish pages or using file-sharing programs like
Kazaa, Gnutella, IRC, FTP, or others. You are also responsible
for keeping your computer safe from external intrusions which
may compromise the capacity or integrity of the Columbia network.
You must respect copyright. The software, books, music, films,
videos, articles, cartoons, pictures, even e-mail, that you
may come across, whether on the Internet, a CD, DVD, tape,
or your favorite magazine, are almost always protected by
copyright. It is a violation of law and University policy
to copy, distribute, share, download or upload any copyrighted
material without the express permission of the copyright owner.
You must respect others' right to access the network. Excessive
use of the network degrades its performance for all users.
Systems using more bandwidth than a defined amount will be
severely limited or cut off the network, without warning.
File-sharing programs automatically distribute files. Please
be aware that programs like Kazaa, Morpheus, and Gnutella
automatically turn on sharing when installed. If you use such
programs, please ensure that you are not using excessive bandwidth
or violating copyright by default, e.g., by sharing media
files or software you have loaded on your computer or by using
excessive bandwidth.
You must keep your computer secure. You should use anti-virus
software and update your operating system regularly to avoid
having intruders damage or take over your system and then
attack others here or on the Internet. You could be held liable
for damage caused by hackers using your computer. The University
provides free copies of Symantec Anti-Virus to protect against
viruses.
The following links provide information on network limits, virus prevention, and computer
security.
In addition, you have other important and specific personal
responsibilities under the policy.
Please take time to review it: University's Computer
and Acceptable Use Policy.
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