Names I Haven’t Heard in a Long Time ∞

Don’t copy that floppy, either!

Apparently, 2008’s Higher Education Opportunity Act required American colleges to work at stemming the tide of piracy taking place on their campuses, due in no small part to the high-speed connections to which students had access. As part of this, universities wrote warnings to students, advising them to avoid illegal activity with an assortment of peer-to-peer apps.

And then, it seems, many of them never modernized these documents. TorrentFreak has collected an amusing assortment of badly out of date warnings. I suspect memories will be evoked for many of this site’s readers simply by reading names like “KaZaA” and “Limewire”.