My university hired some "IT Expert" as a Vice President for Information Technology" that made it mostly impossible to download any sort of animation file or music. This meant that my students and I could no longer access the tutorials that accompanied my textbook. I could not copy the CDs that came with the textbook, or evaluate any new textbooks.
I told the VP about this and he said it was all necessary to prevent the university from being sued for copyright violations over songs and movies. Strangely, we could install a bit torrent program and download anything. Naturally, no one told the VP. By then he was despised universally by the faculty and students alike.
The previous IT director did something that allowed me to bypass the blocks that this clown had put on our computers, but then he got tired of arguing with this overpaid dolt and quit for a better paying job, and the upgraded version of the blocking software restored the blocks.
Eventually, after three years, the overpaid VP himself left and I got someone else to rehabilitate my computer partially. The next person they hired of IT was paid a quarter of the VP and was less competent, but more understanding.
I suppose you need to investigate the IT people at your new job and find out who can help.
