Despite the repercussions of downloading media via illegal peer-to-peer applications, over 90 percent of ISU students who lived on-campus during the 2007- 2008 school year used P2P software.

The high volume of file sharing in the residence halls has led to a recent restriction of p2p applications on all of ISU's on-campus networks.

According to Mark Walbert, associate vice president of Academic Information Technology, 42 percent of the file sharing that occurred throughout campus last year was used for movies, while the remaining 58 percent was used for games and music. "We receive 130 DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] complaints per month...if we get a DMCA compliant, it means you were infringing someone's copyright," Walbert said.

ISU has also enacted other efforts like the Digital Citizens Project and bandwidth management to monitor its on-campus network and educate students about violating copyright laws.

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