Students at the University of South Florida trying to illegally download music or movies should know that lots of eyes are watching, reports the Tampa Tribune: As soon as students run a file-sharing program such as Limewire or BitTorrent on the campus computer network, the university now directs them to a page where they must promise not to use the site for illicit reasons. That might put USF ahead of a bill pending in Congress that would penalize colleges and universities for failing to prevent those illegal acts. None of it comes cheaply, however, for the university or for students. USF has paid $75,000 to set up a computer program that detects when a student runs file-sharing software, and it plans to spend as much annually to run the program…
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