DMCA explained

Registry Robot

HEAT

1. DMCA explained

DMCA is the Digital Millenium Copyright Act protects digital 'intellectual property' from being illegaly distributed. It covers the sharing and serving of illegaly downloaded music and video. If we receive a DMCA complaint from a company that copyrights music, and that complaint is traced to a specific computer, we are obligated, by law to shut that individual's connection off until the matter is cleared up.

DMCA complaints are leveled againts individuals who's computers are serving downloaded music through shared folders. The student may be purposely serving music through, for instance, My Shared Folder (Kazaa), or may unintentionally be serving music because a warez server has been placed on the computer without their knowledge, and this service is serving the music.

The procedure in case a DMCA violation is brought to my attention is for me to inform the student of the DCMA complaint, and then to go to the room and check for certain 'daemons' or services, which may be serving music. The student is then asked to remove the music.

If you have people who are suddenly without a connection, one of the things that may be happening is that they have been shut down because of DMCA complaints.

Download the DMCA (.pdf, 59 pages)

2. Registry Robot

This is a utility form PCMag.com, which allows you to make adjustments to Windows you would not normally be able to make. Some adjustments are similar to those you might make using TweakUI. The nice thing here is you can make all changes completely safely, you can udo the changes very easily, and the utility allows for fixes to some annoying problems. There are a total of 89 tweaks.

Download Registry Robot (This is a .zip file)

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3. HEAT

You will receive a booster on HEAT. You may access the HEAT documentation pages at the top of this page. Here are some instructions for using the HEAT interface. To install HEAT, follow these instructions:

1. Instead of mapping to \\helpdesk\heatinstall$ map to Jeff's machine:

\\ithdxp-jc\heatinstall$

2. Make sure when you follow the instructions for ODBC for HEAT, you not logged into the Oneonta Domain.

The path they will put in for the .ini file is: \\helpdesk\heatinstall$\HEAT_ODBC-local.ini .

Click here for instructions on installing HEAT over the network, keeping in mind the modifications listed above.

Click here for instructions on how to configure HEAT to properly connect to the live database.

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