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U.S. Universities Warn Students about Limewire and Kazaa... in 2024 * TorrentFreak

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Napster provided the spark and when that shut down, other software applications including Kazaa , LimeWire , and BitTorrent fueled the fire.

In the U.S. , higher education institutions were forced to put the brakes on piracy due to the passing of the Higher Education Opportunity Act ( HEOA ) The HEOA requires American universities and colleges to adopt and implement effective anti-piracy policies.

Stanford University has updated its Peer-to-Peer Traffic Advisory on Skype and World of Warcraft.

The Microsoft -owned communication app and Blizzard ’s popular game relied on file-sharing technology in the past.

As far as we know, Skype no longer trigger P2P detection systems such as PacketShaper , but the caution remains in place.