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General Principle:
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NSFnet backbone services are provided to support open research and education
in and among US research and instructional institutions, plus research
arms of for-profit firms when engaged in open scholarly communication and
research. Use for other purposes is not acceptable.
Specifically acceptable uses:
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Communication with foreign researchers and educators in connection with
research or instruction, as long as any network that the foreign user employs
for such communication provides reciprocal access to US researchers and
educators.
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Communication and exchange for professional development, to maintain currency,
or to debate issues in a field or sub field of knowledge.
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Use for disciplinary-society, university-association, government-advisory,
or standards activities related to the users' research and instructional
activities.
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Use in applying for or administering grants or contracts for research or
instruction, but not for other fundraising or public relations activities.
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Any other administrative communications or activities in direct support
of research and instruction.
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Announcements of new products or services for use in research or instruction,
but not advertising of any kind.
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Any traffic originating from a network of another member agency of the
Federal Networking Council if the traffic meets the acceptable use policy
of that agency.
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Communication incidental to otherwise acceptable use, except for illegal
or specifically unacceptable use.
Unacceptable uses:
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Use for for-profit activities (consulting for pay, sales or administration
of campus stores, sale of tickets to sports events, and so on) or use by
for profit institutions unless covered by the General Principle or as a
specifically acceptable use.
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Extensive use for private or personal business.
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Excessive game playing; excessive ill-conceived use; hateful, harassing
or other antisocial behavior; intentional damage or interference with others;
publicly accessible obscene files.
- Any use that violates copyright law. Software and other digital media are protected by copyright law. Copying of software and other digital media is in
violation of Federal Law and College policies. Suspected violations will be vigorously investigated and, if warranted, appropriate penalties applied. Specifically, users do not have the right to:
- Make copies of software for yourselves or others;
- Receive and use unauthorized copies of software;
- Make copies of copyrighted digital media for yourself or others;
- Receive and use unauthorized copies of digital media;
- Create file sharing areas for distribution of unauthorized software or other digital media
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