Re: Coursesniper.com

[Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () USU EDU>]

So far, coursesniper has bogus data for USU.  See http://www.coursesniper.com/sitemap/usu/  where they list Accounting 
and Public Health links.   The course listing data for ACCT gives locations and instructors that we don't have here.  
And the Public Health link goes to a completely different looking page that refers to "The Sumter Campus" which is 
unknown here.

Our Registrar's comment was "I feel sorry for students who might use this service instead of our free waitlist service 
in SCT Banner."

So, at this point we don't have anything that seems like it could be a basis for a copyright claim.  They haven't even 
swiped our wordmark (yet).

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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] on behalf of Koerber, Jeff 
[jkoerber () TOWSON EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:01 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Coursesniper.com

Have you tried contacting the company and asking them to stop?  Their e-mail is contact () coursesniper 
com<mailto:contact () coursesniper com>.  If they don’t stop, talk to your legal department.  Maybe you can claim 
copyright infringement.


Jeff Koerber
Supervisor, Student Computing Services Lab and Service Desk
Office of Technology Services
Towson University


From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Schwab, 
Charles A.
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 4:06 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Coursesniper.com

Recently our Registration folks asked us if there was something that could be done to block access for coursesniper, 
here is the web site:  http://www.coursesniper.com<http://www.coursesniper.com/>.  Essentially it is a pay service that 
will check if a course has an open spot.    I was curious if anyone had been requested to block coursesniper or  looked 
into blocking coursesniper.

Charlie.