Illegal Storing or Sharing Activities of Copyrighted Materials – Your Personal Liability

The entire CityU community is reminded of the University's commitment to the protection of intellectual property and copyrighted material. When it comes to illegal storing or sharing of digital materials - whether music, video, text, or picture - the University imposes its own penalties (disciplinary action, loss of network connectivity) on anyone who is found to be using CityU facilities or campus network for such purposes.

Moreover, organisations hired by the copyright owners are aggressively searching for copyright violators on the Internet and will take independent legal action against such violators. Peer-to-peer file sharing activity using the campus network is easily subject to their scrutiny as long as they remain as one of the participants. Many past legal actions by these organisations have resulted in successful imposition of substantial monetary penalties on the violators.

Please be aware that the target of these actions is not only the individuals engaged in the violations but also the University if it has not shown its diligence in curbing these violations being carried out on its computers or network. As an Internet service provider, the University has no way to prevent but to be obliged without delay to cooperate fully with any law enforcement agency requesting the names of individuals who use computers to share copyrighted materials illegally.

As such, users who use their accounts on the University facilities for such activity inevitably expose both themselves and potentially the University to legal action. Therefore, to protect yourself and the University, make sure you will not engage in illegal storing or sharing of copyrighted materials.

Relocation of Express Printing Service and Fast Printing Service

In order to improve the working environment at the CSC Student Terminal Area, the Express Printing Service located along the main corridor of the CSC has been moved to the new Printing and Plotting Room situated between Teaching Studios B and D, while the Fast Printing Service has been relocated to the area outside Teaching Studio G.

Please Tell Us If You No Longer Need a Booked CSC Teaching Studio

The teaching studios in the Computing Services Centre (CSC) have always been under great demands. For better uses of University resources and for benefits of those staff and students who may still wait for these rooms, as soon as you know that you no longer need the booked CSC teaching studio, please kindly cancel your booking through the CSC Teaching Studio Booking System or through our staff at the Service Counter in the CSC Terminal Areas at least one day in advance. If you have any enquiries, please contact the CSC Service Counter.

A3 Printing Support Available

The Fast Printing Service has been well-received since its launch on 31 January 2007 (please see "Guideline for Fast Network Printing Service" for details.) In view of the need for A3 Black & White and A3 Colour printouts, we are glad to announce that the Fast Printing Service also supports them with immediate effect. Users may simply set the document size to A3 for A3 printouts, and to simplify the calculation, we will maintain both A4 and A3 printing at the same rates for the moment. The charging rates for the Fast Printing Service may be adjusted in future reviews to reflect the updated operation costs if necessary.