<p>^You can only access the <em>Cornell’s</em> DC++ network if you’re on campus.</p>
<p>They are awesome (DC++ networks)> They have practically everything online - usually the catch is you have to share a gig or more of your own stuff (whatever it is).
And, I am also curious about that - why hasn’t Cornell taken the file sharing thing down (which obviously is sharing illegal content…)?
Hmmm…</p>
<p>How much of that 10 GB allowance will daily skyping take up? I want to be able to talk to my friends and family back home, and skype seems like the best way to do so. Man, if we’re paying their crazy tuition, we should get unlimited internet.</p>
<p>Cornell obviously knows about DC++. They don’t shut it down because any file sharing on the network cannot be monitored unless you’re physically on Cornell’s campus (i.e. it is highly highly unlikely that the RIAA is at Cornell tracking a few hundred people). Cornell would rather having people using DC++ than Limewire.</p>
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<p>Just log in with your NetID.</p>
<p>(Unless you meant in general, not just on Cornell’s network lol. Then I have no idea xD)</p>
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<p>depends on if your video chatting and how long your skyping. Skype tends to take up a lot of memory. I’d recommend just calling with your phone. </p>
<p>And you will be paying crazy tuition but extra gb on top of your initial 10gb is like 1.5$ per gb. </p>
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<p>But that doesn’t explain why Cornell itself doesn’t take down DC++ networks like other colleges. Cornell still doesn’t want its students sharing illegal content and the sharing can be traced on campus. Does anyone know how long the current DC++ network has been up for?</p>
<p>btw here is some info on it:
<a href=“Precollege Studies”>Precollege Studies;
<p>I find the “Simplifying Your Life” slogan ironic.</p>
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Yes it does. Cornell doesn’t want people using traditional p2p because of the institutional ramifications and bad publicity. In the absence of DC++, people will just switch to riskier means. Cornell isn’t morally opposed to file sharing; they don’t give two sh**s as long as the sharing has no consequences. I can’t speak to other colleges, but I guarantee that if Cornell thought the institutional risk and risk to its students were anything more than absolutely negligible, they would’ve shut it down years ago. In fact I think they tacitly *approve *of DC++ because they know students can safely operate due to the inability (and possible illegality) of the RIAA to invade its private network.</p>
<p>To reiterate: file sharing on DC++ runs on Cornell’s private network. To access DC++, you must physically be on Cornell’s campus in Ithaca, NY with a computer that’s assigned a Cornell IP address. The RIAA cannot possibly monitor the network unless they are in Cornell dorms or libraries.</p>
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So if what you are saying is true then we should see this DC++ network on forever ( or at least it won’t be shut down by Cornell). I don’t get why other colleges put them down then if its worst for students to download illegal content from elsewhere.</p>
<p>I think colleges tend to shut them down because they are just as bad for publicity as students downloading illegal content from external sites. Surely people know that Cornell has an existing DC++ network and those people don’t even have to be at Cornell to know that. So either way it gets public.</p>
<p>Using Windows?
When you’re done using the computer, right click the network icon on your taskbar, and then “Status” (Windows 7 Wireless - Click the wireless icon, and then right-click–>Status the wireless network you’re on).</p>
<p>Add up those bytes you see at the bottom (both the “Sent” and “Received”).
These are bytes, by the way, so to convert them, just go to Google and type in “x bytes to Gigabytes” to get the amount of data you use.</p>
<p>Thanks! I’m guessing these are per day</p>
<p>Per session - aka when you’re going to shut down your computer, the numbers are the total amount of bytes you used from the time you first went on the internet to the time you stop using it. For that one day/session. Not per day.</p>
<p>Another question. So I just got my cornell.edu email, and since it’s gmail, it has a feature with voice chat and video chat on it. Does that mean that I can use those chatting thing without it counting toward my limit since it comes from my email account?</p>
<p>And thanks for the bytes usage information!</p>
<p>No, any access to outside cornell.edu will be counted towards your bandwidth limit.</p>
<p>Once you go in, the domain is mail.google.com</p>
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