<p>I was looking over their policies at the UC Davis website and it sounded as though they monitor what you download and that p2p clients were illegal and they shut down your internet access. It was specifically addressed but the word usage, at least to me implied those kinds of programs. Is this true? And if so, is there any way around it?</p>
<p>This is not true. </p>
<p>A friends sister comes home every break with gigs upon gigs of stuff she downloaded and got off of the davis server. </p>
<p>Im intrested on how Internet 2 works at Davis.</p>
<p>I would also like to know some things about davis i2. also, can any current students say which programs are blocked, if any? and, does bt work well?</p>
<p>Geeze I thought you guys wanted to get an education it turns out all you want is fast downloading speed :) I don't don't know anything about i2 or bt since I live off campus and have never tried downloading on campus since I don't want my accounts frozen.</p>
<p>education is only part of the reason why one goes to college ;)</p>
<p>True. Just don't blow all your time watching movies and playing games. A couple good guys in my math class got some B+'s,A-'s instead of A's because they didn't study enough. Of course I didn't study much but I managed to get away with it.</p>
<p>What about software... They don't care if you have... questionable software on your computer do they?</p>
<p>Well check out this article I found from the MY UCDAVIS' webportal.</p>
<p>[ UCD gets subpoena for illegal downloads</p>
<p>By Sharon Stello/Enterprise staff writer</p>
<p>Published Jun 23, 2005 - 14:28:37 CDT.</p>
<p>UC Davis received a subpoena Tuesday following last month's announcement that four UCD students were included in the latest wave of music file-sharing lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America.</p>
<p>The students' names have not yet been released, but university officials said the students were living in residence halls on campus. The students reportedly used Internet2, a high-speed computer network reserved for researchers and communication between individuals with university-affiliated e-mail addresses ending in .edu.</p>
<p>Individuals were identified in the lawsuit only by their Internet Protocol address, equivalent to a cyberspace address or phone number. Once a subpoena is served, the Internet Service Provider, in this case the university, must track down the names.</p>
<p>"We will be complying with it. � We take abuse of our Internet very seriously," said Jan Carmikle Dwyer, intellectual property officer for copyrights at UCD.</p>
<p>The latest round of lawsuits involved 91 students at 33 universities including four UC campuses - Davis, San Diego, Berkeley and Los Angeles. This was the first time UCD students have been caught up in the music industry's litigation to stop copyright infringement.</p>
<p>Carmikle Dwyer said when UCD received the subpoena, it was reviewed and validated by the University of California's general counsel.</p>
<p>After clearance from UC's legal team, UCD tracked down the students' names and must now notify them to meet privacy laws before submitting their contact information to RIAA's lawyers.</p>
<p>"This is going to be a real unpleasant surprise for these students who have gone home for the summer," Carmikle Dwyer said.</p>
<p>Once UCD provides student contact information to RIAA's lawyers, the lawsuits will be out of the university's hands, she said. However, each case also will be reviewed by Student Judicial Affairs to determine whether disciplinary action against the students is warranted.</p>
<p>UCD warns students about illegal file sharing during freshman orientation and there have been several articles in the student newspaper as well as periodic memos and bulletins from campus officials.</p>
<p>However, the music and film industries often notify the university of illegal file sharing problems on the campus. These complaints are referred to the campus Network Operations Center to track down which computer downloaded the file. Once the complaint is validated, the computer's network connection port is turned off temporarily.</p>
<p>For repeat offenders, their computer's network access can be disconnected permanently. The campus focuses on education rather than punishment because sometimes a person may not be at fault if his or her computer has been infected with a virus that is making the files available online.</p>
<p>Carmikle Dwyer added that peer-to-peer software could be installed on a computer and used for legal purposes, such as downloading public documents. But, if a student is using the computer to listen to a CD or watch a DVD and the computer is connected to the Internet, the peer-to-peer software in the background could make the music or movie available to others online.</p>
<p>Carmikle Dwyer said it's important for people to realize "the Internet is not anonymous." ]</p>
<p>Any more insight on this from students who have already lived in the dorms? I am wondering which programs are blocked (BT, irc, DC) and/or capped.</p>
<p>how about emule?</p>
<p>They will shut off your internet and send you to judicial affairs if they catch you using programs to download music or movies illegally (kazaa was quite popular when I was a frosh). Several people in my building got thier internet cut off.. several other people I knew also knew people that had thier internet cut off. They don't give you a warning... they give you an email saying your internet is being cut off about 10 minutes before they do it. </p>
<p>My internet was shut off :) But I didn't even have kazaa on my computer (which they claimed I used), nor did I have any file on my computer that was the movie that they claimed I downloaded. They had the wrong person, my IP address had another digit on the end than the true guilty person. Nevertheless, if took me a full day to get it straightened out and for my internet to get put back on. It's a real pain in the butt.. just don't download stuff illegally.. have a friend in an apartment do it for you.</p>
<p>What about if you have software you obtained illegally on your computer that you use for academic purposes?</p>
<p>I don't think they have anyway of knowing what programs you have on your computer that are illegally owned unless they are downloaded illegally while you're there, or you share them in a peer-to-peer file sharing program.</p>