If a student is caught downloading copyrighted material illegally, whether on campus or in student housing, they will receive a warning from the IT Department and/or the Director of Student Housing. Second offenses will be notified to the Associate Dean of Students and their House Advisor. For third offenses that occur using the Internet access provided in Student Housing, a $300 fine will charged to the student. After all third offenses, both on campus and in student housing, the offender will be required to make an appearance before the Honor Council.
System and Network Activities
The following activities are strictly prohibited, with no exceptions:- Violations of the rights of any person or College protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property, or similar laws or regulations, including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of "pirated" or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by The King's College.
- Unauthorized copying of copyrighted material including, but not limited to, digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books or other copyrighted sources, copyrighted music, and the installation of any copyrighted software for which The King's College or the end user does not have an active license is strictly prohibited.
- Exporting software, technical information, encryption software or technology, in violation of international or regional export control laws, is illegal. The appropriate management should be consulted prior to export of any material that is in question.
- Introduction of malicious programs into the network or server (e.g., viruses, worms, Trojan horses, e-mail bombs, etc.).
- Revealing your account password to others or allowing use of your account by others. This includes family and other household members when work is being done at home.
- Using a The King's College computing asset to actively engage in procuring or transmitting material that is in violation of sexual harassment or hostile workplace laws in the user's local jurisdiction.
- Making fraudulent offers of products, items, or services originating from any The King's College account.
- Effecting security breaches or disruptions of network communication. Security breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which the student is not an intended recipient or logging into a server or account that the student is not expressly authorized to access, unless these duties are within the scope of regular duties. For purposes of this section, "disruption" includes, but is not limited to, network sniffing, pinged floods, packet spoofing, denial of service, and forged routing information for malicious purposes.
- Port scanning or security scanning is expressly prohibited unless prior notification to The IT Department is made.
- Executing any form of network monitoring which will intercept data not intended for the student’s host, unless this activity is a part of the student’s normal level of access.
- Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network or account.
- Interfering with or denying service to any user other than the student’s host (for example, denial of service attack).
- Using any program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind, with the intent to interfere with, or disable, a user's terminal session, via any means, locally or via the Internet/Intranet/Extranet.
- Unauthorized attempts to physically destroy or break into any computer that belongs to College;
- Accessing sexually oriented internet sites or the receipt, storage, or transmission of sexually oriented material;
- Providing information about, or lists of, The King's College students or employees to parties outside The King's College.
Email and Communications Activities
- Copying, sending or posting confidential materials of the College on a website, social networking site or other web entity;
- Using email to circumvent other established College policies
- Sending unsolicited email messages, including the sending of "junk mail" or other advertising material to individuals who did not specifically request such material (email spam).
- Any form of harassment via email, telephone or paging, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages.
- Unauthorized use, or forging, of email header information.
- Solicitation of email for any other email address, other than that of the poster's account, with the intent to harass or to collect replies.
- Transmission of obscene or harassing messages to any other individual (obscenity, ethnic slurs, racial comments, off-color jokes, etc.);
- Creating or forwarding "chain letters", "Ponzi" or other "pyramid" schemes of any type.
- Use of unsolicited email originating from within The King's College's networks of other Internet/Intranet/Extranet service providers on behalf of, or to advertise, any service hosted by The King's College or connected via The King's College's network.
- Posting the same or similar non-business-related messages to large numbers of Usenet newsgroups (newsgroup spam).