<p>Hi, guys.</p>
<p>I'm jumping into college life next autumn... but from similar threads it seems to me that there's no legal and safe way to get my hands on some fresh music while on campus. Torrents and all the likes are illegal!</p>
<p>What about vbox, you tube and that sort of sites? Are they allowed and available?</p>
<p>ruckus is free with a .edu email</p>
<p>thanks, person1.</p>
<p>Anybody else? I am used to using youtube at home. Is it allowed on campus?</p>
<p>songza.com</p>
<p>you have to be online when you listen though</p>
<p>projectplaylist.com</p>
<p>Pandora</a> Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music</p>
<p>If you really need torrents, you can rent a seedbox and run torrents on there.</p>
<p>YouTube should be allowed on campus.</p>
<p>BitTorrent is illegal, but if you don't get caught it's fine. Dangerous if you are caught, though.</p>
<p>Limewire is also good, just turn uploads off.</p>
<p>And then there's the legal options.</p>
<p>BitTorrent Isn't technically illegal, only if you download illegal torrents. There are legal torrents. I recommend uTorrent anyways, better than BitTorrent.</p>
<p>I'm going to leave my server at home and then remote in and torrent that way.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that's another option, but upload speed is pretty bad for me (53.1 kB/s max) so that would be horribly slow. If I weren't staying at home for college, I'd have to get a seedbox. Running a client on a server back home is definitely an option though if you have a fast connection and you're staying at the dorms.</p>
<p>youtube is just a video site and they dont let you download...why would that be illegal</p>
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<p>Not everyone is as technologically acclimated as some of us to understand the difference.</p>
<p>Though there is the technicality of copyrighted videos being uploaded to YouTube, though the quality is horrible and streaming video is usually of low quality.</p>
<p>A) It's illegal whether or not youtube allows you to download.
B) You can download from youtube; keepvid is one of many youtube downloading sites.
C) If the video has been converted on the backend, you can get higher quality by adding "&fmt=6" or "&fmt=18" to the end of a youtube URL. It only helps if the original upload is quality but since youtube retains the original upload they are slowly rolling out the higher quality videos.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip about the higher quality on YouTube, I never knew about that!</p>
<p>I mainly use skreemr.com or other similar free mp3 search sites. A safe alternative to torrents, because there is no p2p connectivity involved. Not sure about legality, though.</p>
<p>last.fm
imeem
muxtape.com</p>
<p>Even with those settings youtube quality still sucks. The fmt18 cleans up a bit though sometimes.</p>
<p>thank you, guys :)</p>
<p>I agree on Pandora for streaming radio. If you want to hear a specific song though Rhapsody is a good choice. I think you are allowed 25 free listens a month. It's not enough to be your only source but its good for finding random songs that may be hard to find elsewhere.</p>