While students at universities in the US are pressured by the RIAA,
a British university citing pressure from increasing numbers of copyright infringement notices, has taken out a blunt instrument and
banned its students from accessing some of the world's largest BitTorrent sites, regardless of the legitimate content they contain.
The Information Services department of Cardiff University in the UK has notified 25,000 students of its intention to protect the university from a rising tide of copyright infringement notices due to 'inappropriate use' of P2P. It will accomplish this by the wholesale banning of a whole range of BitTorrent search engines and trackers from the university network.
Solution: Use TOR to search the torrent sites. Unblockable.
http://tor.eff.org/