[Web4lib] websites who sell access to licenced material illegally

[Binkley, Peter]

And don't forget bugmenot:

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca

(no, that id isn't valid any more)

Peter

Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
Information Technology Services
4-30 Cameron Library
University of Alberta Libraries
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J8
Phone: (780) 492-3743
Fax: (780) 492-9243
e-mail: peter.binkley at ualberta.ca

 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Mark Sandford
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:47 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] websites who sell access to licenced material
illegally

(Sorry for the direct reply, Kerry)

Clay, I can't help much on how to solve your specific problem.  But we
had something similar happen.. one of our vendors cut off our access for
downloading thousands of music files, which was what made us aware that
this was going on. We do have control over our authentication lists, so
we can handle it locally, as well as cutting off IP ranges.  Apparently
some ISPs are well known for not following up on complaints and since we
don't have many faculty or staff members logging in legitimately from
Southeast Asia, it's an option for us to limit more aggressively.

However, a quick experiment shows that at least some of these sites are
indexed by Google.  To use my institution as an example...

Google advanced search for "ezproxy.wpunj.edu " and Language = Chinese
Simplified.  I went through the results and they're no longer valid
user/pass combos, but they're there.  I chose another library, one I
found on the site Thomas posted, and it came back in the results with
currently valid information.  So if your authentication server has its
own url, you might want to search for it in different languages and see
what comes up.

--
Mark Sandford
Special Formats Cataloger
William Paterson University
(973)270-2437
sandfordm1 at wpunj.edu
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